---
license: cc-by-4.0
tags:
- meter
- poetry
- scansion
- prosody
pretty_name: iambic pentameter
size_categories:
- 100K<n<1M
---
108k lines of 18th Century iambic pentameter, scraped via xquery from the Eighteenth Century Poetry Archive xml database. 

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/


Scanned using prosodic.py. 

https://github.com/quadrismegistus/prosodic

"Score" roughly equates to metrical complexity or divergence from strict iambic patterning. 

See https://github.com/cretic/metricalgpt for more information including metrical constraints