Shakespeare's sonnets are written predominantly in a meter called iambic pentameter, a rhyme scheme in which each sonnet line consists of ten syllables. the syllables are divided into five pairs called iambs or iambic feet. an iamb is a metrical unit made up of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. it sounds like this: baboom / baboom / baboom / baboom / baboom. why, according to akala, does the rhythm of shakespeare imitate the sound of life?