THE ARCHAEOLOGIST OF THE FUTURE Five thousand years have fled, let us suppose.
And lo, an archaeologist appears,
Searching for records of our joys and fears.
And haply out of all our verse and prose
One book alone remains. How will it pose
His plodding brain, after that flight of years,
To come on Alice swimming in her tears,
Or Father William, an eel upon his nose! He'll stare and gasp at Tweedle-dee and -dum
And gape at incandescent words that mock
Invention: Bandersnatch and Jabberwock,
And, fancying angry eggs and talking flowers,
No doubt will think his fifth millennium
A far less entertaining time than ours. -- Leonard Bacon
I do not know any examples of comic relief, but the famous Romeo and Juliet line that follows is in iambic pentameter: Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? The underlined syllables are stressed.
Iambic Pentameter describes the number and type of syllables in a line of poetry. It contains no lines, any more than a bone contains a skeleton.What a line of iambic pentameter does contain is metric feet or units of rhythm. They are iambs and there are five of them. An iamb is a two syllable unit with the stress on the second syllable, like be-fore, cre-ate, de-nounce.The curfew tolls the end of parting day,The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea.(From Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) This is two lines of iambic pentameter, containing 10 iambs altogether:The cur-few tolls the end of par-ting day.
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It can be either one. examples: Do you have any boys in your class? (boys = plural) Is there any girl who wants to play football? (girl = singular)
There are fourteen examples of it--one in each line.
I do not know any examples of comic relief, but the famous Romeo and Juliet line that follows is in iambic pentameter: Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? The underlined syllables are stressed.
Ticket to Ride is almost iambic.
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Heat of the Moment by Asia
Sonnet- 14 line lyric poem that is usually written in iamic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme scheme Iambic Pentameter- line of poetry of 5 iambs *Iamb- a metrical foot (unit of measure) consisting of an unstressed and stressed syllables OR IF YOU CANT UNDERSTAND THAT Iambic Pentameter- a meter in poetry. It has an unrhymed line with 5 iambs or feet. Iambic means the stress is on the second syllable; an example is the word good-bye. Pentameter shows us that a line has 5 feet or clusters of two syllables adding up to 10 syllables a line. these feet are marked like this: Hello/hello/hello/hello/hello.
Blank verse consists of unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter, while free verse has no specific meter or rhyme scheme. Blank verse follows a structured pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables, while free verse allows for more flexibility in line length and rhythm.
Iambic Pentameter describes the number and type of syllables in a line of poetry. It contains no lines, any more than a bone contains a skeleton.What a line of iambic pentameter does contain is metric feet or units of rhythm. They are iambs and there are five of them. An iamb is a two syllable unit with the stress on the second syllable, like be-fore, cre-ate, de-nounce.The curfew tolls the end of parting day,The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea.(From Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard) This is two lines of iambic pentameter, containing 10 iambs altogether:The cur-few tolls the end of par-ting day.
A rhyming couplet is any pair of lines that end with rhyming words. An example would be:When help is what you're trying to getHead on down to the internet!Iambic pentameter is a bit trickier. A line of iambic has 10 syllables, with the first syllable unstressed, the next stressed, then it alternates between unstressed and stressed for the rest of the line. Sonnets usually utilize iambic pentameter.But sometimes you must try to bediscreet.(Italics added to show stress)
Alternating Quatrain - ABAB. can have any meter Envelope Quatrain - ABBA. can have any meter Hymnal Stanza - ABCB. can have any meter Heroic Stanza - quatrains written in iambic pentameter. Either Italian Stanza - ABBA - or Sicilian Stanza - ABAB
In 1573, as part of his new religious reforms (because he had just become Pope in 1572) Pope Gregory XIII instituted the Catholic practice that all secular poetry was required to be written in iambic pentameter in order to encourage primarily religious work. By the time William Shakespeare was of age to begin seriously writing poetry, it had become common practice to use primarily iambic pentameter in any work worthy of reading. Because of this, he adopted the practice of writing in iambic pentameter. Interestingly, the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in iambic pentameter mirrors the way most people naturally speak. This writing pattern, embraced by Shakespeare, makes the Old English verse sound more conversational, and more familiar to modern listeners.
besides the fact that everyone used it so it was natural, the @p3x answer is, "He wanted it to have a more natural, lyrical flow that is pleasing to the ear."