How to pronounce“iambs”in English

Ideally, you don't read iambs in that sing-song-y way, but iambic pentameter pops up all over the place.

which means that every line has 10 syllables, consisting of five iambs.

Like, a lot of times pop songs are written in iambs.

John Keats' last will and testament was a single line of iambic pentameter: My chest of books divide among my friends.

So, the rhyme scheme is: A, B, A, B, C, D, C, D, E, F, E, F, G, G And the meter in Shakespeare’s sonnets, as in much of Shakespeare’s plays, is iambic pentameter,