05-08-2014, 11:48 PM
bill Wrote:the soliloquy from hamlet, written but shakespeare that iambic meter guy....count the feet the first line count the iambs
count the iambs on the first 5 line. then have a peep at the sixth.
Shakespear Wrote:To be, or not to be: that is the question:when I scan the solioquy, I don't see perfect iambs through it, but I do see an even five stresses in every line. Maybe that, and the natural rhythm (for his time) is what makes it sound so great?
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
*Warning: blatant tomfoolery above this line

