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[htotheh]

Writing in iambic pentameter is extremely strange for me. I have no trouble constructing lines with four feet (tetrameter?), but fitting ideas into five feet is just... weird. I think it probably has something to do with music, and the fact that phrases are usually in fours or eights. Four just sounds more... complete than five. That might be why pentameter is standard for this sort of thing, though--it doesn't get as annoyingly rhythmic.