Here’s an example from Catullus’ Carmina 25, with light syllables marked by u, heavy syllables by –, and one foot per cell. So that’s seven iambic feet per line (count ‘em!) with a bonus ...

It's poetry — rhyming couplets written in perfect iambic pentameter, those ten-syllable lines of alternating emphasis made famous by authors of sonnets and blank verse. But unlike your average ...