iambic pentameter

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Oct 27, 20212 min read

One Verse Every Week 'EUPHONY'

Rock a-bye, baby, On the tree top, When the wind blows, The cradle will rock. When the bough breaks, The baby will fall, Down will come...

Jun 16, 20211 min read

One Verse Every Week 'DACTYL'

An iamb, trochee and spondee are two-syllabic feet in a verse. A dactyl is a three-syllabic foot in a verse. In a dactylic meter a...

Jun 3, 20211 min read

One Verse Every Week 'SPONDEE'

Like an iamb and a trochee, a spondee, too, is a type of foot in a metrical feet. In a spondee one stressed syllable follows another...

May 26, 20212 min read

One Verse Every Week 'CAESURA'

What's Montague? || It is nor hand nor foot --William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (II.ii.40) This line is in blank verse. But how is...

May 19, 20211 min read

One Verse Every Week 'TROCHEE'

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. (IV.i.10-11) Remember these lines and the three witch sisters in...

May 13, 20211 min read

One Verse Every Week 'FEMININE-ENDING BLANK VERSE'

A blank verse with a feminine ending is, not the standard ten-syllabic metre, instead, one more than the ten, ending with an additional...

Apr 22, 20211 min read

One Verse Every Week 'FREE VERSE'

Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it, But they knew that...