Venus and Adonis was his earliest success around 1593. It went into several editions and made Shakespeare a whack of money which he really needed because plague had closed the London playhouses.
Iambic pentameter is the type of poetic meter that is commonly associated with William Shakespeare.
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All of them.
The poetic form is called a sonnet.
Most of Shakespeare's poems are sonnets, but there are also long narrative poems written in couplets.
iambic pentameter
His first literary success was his poem Venus and Adonis.
He wrote almost exclusively in heightened or poetic language.
His Henry VI plays were early successes, as was Titus Andronicus.
Henry VI, Part Two and Part Three are thought to be his first his plays. Greene uses a paraphrase of a line from the play to satirize Shakespeare. Greene changes "a tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide," to "a poet's heart wrapped in a player's hide" to characterize Shakespeare.
revoulutionary, influential, knowlegable, role model, creative and poetic
Shakespeare used several poetic forms, notably the long narrative poem (in Venus and Adonis) and the sonnet. All of these poetic forms are in iambic pentameter. The narrative poems consist of a number of stanzas each with an ababcc scheme. The sonnets are generally in a ababcdcdefefgg scheme.