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Since the second half of the 18th century, in the course of the rediscovery of William Shakespeare and medieval or perceived medieval Roman models, especially Dante's and Petrarch's, the iambic pentameter has become one of the most widely used German verse types, practically unrivalled as stage verse, and has thus displaced the Alexandrian, which was still the dominant verse metre in German Baroque, following the example of French Renaissance and Classical poetry. In German, it occurs unrhymed as blank verse, primarily in stage poetry, and more rarely as rhymed verse. It is a very common meter in literatures with accentuating verse principles. The iambic pentameter (also rising pentameter) is a verse meter consisting of five iambs.