to be or not to be

But with Shakespeare,it's all about the iamb.This two-syllable foot is like a reverse trochee,so the first syllable is unstressedand the second is stressed, as in,To be, or not to be.Shakespeare's favorite meter, in particular, was iambic pentameter,where each line of verseis made up of five two-syllable iambs,for a total of ten syllables.