Any tips for maintaining iambic pentameter?

Question

Any tips for maintaining iambic pentameter?
I cant seem to do it.

Answer

Iambic feet are not difficult. You are over thinking it.brbrEven the best poets with the best poems usually didnt maintain it throughout the entire verse. It is not necessary. brbrDo your best and the best way to learn how to do anything right is to read a lot of what has come before you. Basically, when I realized that all metered poetry really was... consisted of changing the words to someone elses poem... I began writing Prose. brbrIts all just a bunch of rehashed antique Weird Al yankovick in poetic form... brbrAn Iamb is a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable or symbolically, a little scoop and then a forward slash. as I do not have a little scoop on my keyboard an example of a word that is Iambic is defeat. De feat.brbrIt follows the natural pattern of all English words and phrases... How can you say that its hard? brbrTo wake the soul by tender strokes of artbrTo raise the genius and to mend the heartbrTo make Mankind in conscious virtue boldbrlive o re each scene and be what they beholdbrbrPentameter is a five foot line. and yet again, the basic line in much of English verse. brbrIts not too hard if you think about it.