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20837130 No.20837130 [Reply] [Original]

I want rewrite the dialogue of my three principal characters in different poetic feet to make their lines more distinctive.

I have read Shakespeare and am familiar with iambic meter, but are there examples of plays with anapestic/trochaic dialogue?

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>>20837130
Shakespeare uses trochaic pentameter at points, I think in Lear and Macbeth and probably others. Lots of Roman comedies use varied metres in different forms, Plautus probably the clearest example

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>>20837163
Interesting, thanks. I'll look up those examples.

I know the difference between pentameter and hexameter etc. in poetry, but it never made much sense to me for plays because they're spoken aloud. Aren't the line breaks arbitrary? What does a line break even signify in a soliloquy? Like the Chocolate Rain guy moving his head away from the mic to breathe?