Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor

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Covered by papers;
stitched by a pen
Poets or writers
Women and men
Staring all night
Looking at stars, inspiring by moon
Waiting for any light
May be later or soon
Poor pen :" I'm bothered"
Extrait from life's book
poor pen was suffered
Pleasing us to took
head is heavy by thoughts
It isn't our faults

Fun video teaching. Thank you. ... Hmmm. never thought of iambic pentameter as heartbeat. Depends on how you feel it. A rest beat after the second beat, it fits well, since heartbeat cycle is a three pulse (lub-dub rest). When I hear Robert Frost read his work, his ten beat line is straight flow of 10. No heartbeat there. Thanks for the new insight!

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Great observations! I most especially enjoyed the end: "Shakespeare's most poetic lines don't just TALK about matters of the heart...they follow its rhythm." How poetic! :)

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If only the English lessons I endured as a schoolboy where that coherent and intelligent as that. Thank you.

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This is interesting.

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this video explained iamic pentameter way better than my professor...

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"Although he was famous for his plays, Shakespeare was first and foremost a poet."
This is incredibly untrue. His entire business was theatre. His job was writing, acting in, and helping to produce plays. Shakespeare never published any of his poetry or plays himself on the page, we think of him as a poet as we study him by reading but he was most certainly NOT a poet first and a playwright second.

Is all english poetry written according to these tetrameters

He's actually kinda wrong, Shakespeare is almost always iambic pentameter. I mean sure, you don't always say it like it is, but you don't overemphasize with normal poetry either. even the short dialogue, if you do the line breaks correctly are in it. An interesting bit is that the shorter, more fast paced lines often fall in between the actual poetic line break, but that's because the actors are responding to each other fast enough that they effectively continue the line.

S1 is louder and longer than S2. So it's a bit weird to correlate it to an iamb.

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to be or not to be that is the question - is 11 syllables .... ? is there some exception here that I'm missing ?

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This video is so helpful!!! Thank you so much!

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What if you don't speak like that? He is choosing to stress certain syllables or words.

the hearbeating reminded me of Patrick's pov chapters in my policeman 💙 (dee-dum, dumdee)

"of course most lines of Shakespeare's plays are written in regular prose" is not true. Most of the plays are in iambic pentameter.

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It's also when I found out today that poetic meters have patterns like a drum beat would. Simply think the kick as an unstressed syllable, and the snare as a stressed syllable, and you've got a beat made from a foot. Damn, poetry is music!

Most of Shakespeare is in prose? You might try reading some of it.

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Superb explanation

This is the problem with modern education. No poet ever once thought the poem out in a technical way like this so why teach it like this?
They wrote in a more intuitive analogous natural way no a technical digital way.

Such a beautiful reason for choosing iambic pentameter

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Total and utter nonsense in today's medium - Stephen King and Quentin Tarantino don't use iambic pentameters - it is a product of the time when 16% of the nation was illiterate, making William's work easier for an audience to follow and understand. (ps. i flipping love Shakespeare) ...... Three centuries later (97% literacy) Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë kicked arsed, their novels don't use iambic pentameter - today's teens text without using vowels - the horror .......

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