What Is Iambic Pentameter?

An iam is a type of stressed and unstressed syllable paring that is used to create the metre of a poem. On one line of a poem, ye, what you have there is iambic pentameter,. penta meaning five and five, five ims on a line making up the meter, iambicpentameter. But there's plenty of different kinds of meters that a poem can have based on the type of stressed or unstressed syllables it uses.