Ozy in the zone

[dcsimpson]

<!--QuoteBegin-IceDragon+Feb 18 2006, 05:30 PM--> <table border='0' align='center' width='95%' ><tr><td class='quotetop'><b>Quote:</b> (IceDragon @ Feb 18 2006, 05:30 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quotebody'> All I remember wabout that is my AP literature teacher saying that sometimes the stresses were moved to make the meter work, his example was "...Romeo is bani<i>shed</i>. People gave him breaks, because meter is tough to do. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table> <!--QuoteEEnd--><br> Or, continuing that Mark Antony speech:<br><br>Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears (not iambic pentameter at all, but a "grabber," like "my fellow Americans"--but it does have the correct number of syllables, it's just accented all wrong)<br>I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. (Iambic pentameter, with that little bit at the end tacked on--the "feminine ending" if you like)<br>The evil that men do lives after them, (Straight up iambic pentameter, if you accent "that" rather than "men," which is slightly awkward)<br>The good is oft interred with their bones. (This requires you to say "interred" as a three-syllable word, to work. "in-TER-ed.")<br><br>I am quoting this from memory; I haven't actually read Julius Caesar since 9th grade.

[IceDragon]

The meter does help show that the first part of MacBeth ActIV, scene i were not written by the Bars, but added later.

[Dr. Doog]

I already said, all his plays weren't blank verse all the way through. just parts of them.

[IceDragon]

It's just that that part of the scene is not noly not in verse, it has an aabbcc rhyming pattern. I have never seen any other piece in any Shakespeare play I have claimed to read that had that.