Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter https://youtube.com/watch?v=vI5lsuyUNu_4 The sometimes-difficult-to-understand iambic pentameter is explained in detail and celebrated in this five-minute video. Incredibly well-made and worth watching on repeat. Billy Collins on the Great Poets https://...
In sonnets, where form and meter demand precision, metaphors are often tightly woven into the fabric of the poem. Shakespeare’s sonnets, for instance, use metaphors to encapsulate complex ideas within the constraints of iambic pentameter. In Sonnet 18, the famous line “Shall I compare thee ...
There is something simple about the rhyming couplets of the poem, with these couplets themselves being arranged into pairs to form quatrains, and the (largely iambic) pentameter metre of the poem. We discuss the poem in more detail here. Discover more from Interesting Literature Subscribe to get...
Oh yes, the book reminds me that poetry can get pretty complicated at times, that poets can easily lose sight of simple truths as they spend too long thinking about their place among their peers, or concentrate on saying what’s fashionable in a currently fashionable way, or (amazingly cleve...
The more good poetry you read, the better turn your meters, and often you will speak in verse without even trying (the entire phrase before is in unrhymediambic tetrameter). But you should take it up a notch still andlearn the poems you like by heart, no matter how hard it will be ...
s fortunes – play-by-play man Jack Buck said “I don’t believe what I just saw.” Beautiful: a totally colloquial line of iambic tetrameter. Vin Scully, describing the same at-bat, let a few seconds of silence pass before saying, “In a year that has been so improbable, the ...
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I savor "He went to the apex of his leap" followed by a sterling example of iambic pentameter: "and caught it in the webbing of his glove," All announcers have their signature phrases. When the Mets’ win, Howie Rose says, “Put it in the books.” The late Bob Murphy -- who coul...
Let me start with the very first poem in Joseph Harrison’s first book. In retrospect, it’s highly characteristic of his poems to follow, diverse in manner as they are. It’s written in rhyme (couplets) and meter (iambic, though with lines of varying length). Consistent with Harrison’...