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Anonymous Thu Dec 8 03:20:28 2016 No.8814946 [View]
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Okay do you know what Iambic pentameter is? An iamb is a type of foot in poetry. In words there are stressed syllables and unstressed syllables. For instance, when you say "I am behind the house" you accent the HIND in "behind". If you read aloud "beHIND the house" and "the animals BEhind" you can hear the difference in whats accented vs what isn't.
So an iamb is an unaccented syllable followed by an accented syllable and iambic pentameter is five iambs per line. Now do you know the famous soliloquy "To be or not to be"? That whole thing is in iambic pentameter [the image], which is pretty impressive.
Shakespeare's command of language, metaphor, meter and a lot of other things make him one of the best writers in the history of the English language.

I could keep talking but you should really just pick up Hamlet. Its one of my favorite books.

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