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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
—Isaac Bashevis Singer
iambic pentameter
The most common type of meter in English poetry, in which there are five iambs (unstressed then stressed syllable pair) to a line: "But soft!/ What light/ through yon/der win/dow breaks?" (Romeo and Juliet).