Saturday, March 17, 2012

Iambic Pentameter

Shakespeare wrote almost every line of his scripts in iambic pentameter.surprisingly people use it without even realizing. His style consisted of 10 beats (a great deal of the time otherwise it indicated an action or movement possibly) its somewhat a emphasis up and down shift in the voice.
/ is a word- or part of a word- when your voice goes up
U is a word - or part of a word- when your voice is flat aka normal-ish

*Note* that the emphasis and different spelling is taken out so you can just get the basic idea for how to use iambic pentameter

/ U / U / U / U / U
A horse A horse MY kingDOM for A horse

but there are odd instances...

But soft what light through yonder window breakes
It is the east and Juliet is the sun
--- Juliet in this case is only two syllables to make it only two, it sounds like “you’ll yet” as does other things like Romeo’s two syllables name is “Rome yo” :)
YO, Romes cool dog. PEACE OOOOUT!!!!!! *ahem* back to serious business...

also there is “ed”s and “ ‘d “s

Hence banishedis banish’d from the world
and worlds exile is death. then banished”...

Banish’d is the equivalent of what we think of it as but banishED sounds like
“I must banish Ed from Verona for his deed” (‘Ed’ as in the name “Ed”)

so reread it and say it aloud and have your family members come in and ask you “What the heck are you doing?” :) MuHahahaha!!!!!!

1 comment:

  1. This looks interesting...I would like to read more about it. Do you have a link to the source of the information?

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