"He then proceeded to describe an hexameter and pentameter verse.

Another thing which the reader will note with interest in Restoration literature is the adoption of the heroic couplet; that is, two iambic pentameter lines which rime together, as the most suitable form of poetry.

In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.

For example, three dactylic stanzas, in each of which a pentameter couplet is followed by a hexameter line, and this again by a heptameter, are introduced by Prof. Hart thus: "The Dactylic Tetrameter, Pentameter, and Hexameter, with the additional or hypermeter syllable, are all found combined in the following extraordinary specimen of versification.

Most blank verse makes use of the iambic pentameter measure, but we find many exceptions.