| 单词 | pentameter |
| 例句 | “Yes” “There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter, yes?” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The result of their collaboration certainly rhymes, but it’s got more than iambic pentameter; together, the three stage a hip-hop-influenced version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z She repeatedly asked the actors to speak faster, to trust that the “heartbeat” of the iambic pentameter and the precision of the imagery, if articulated properly, will pull the audience along. A Voice Instructor for the Leads in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2013-09-12T16:20:05Z It's difficult to accommodate those in poetry; and is the writer aware of the more agreeable iambic pentameter in line nine: "they try and fail, and do not really try"? Poetry workshop: a rectangular frame 2010-05-24T15:22:00Z And he knows his way around iambic pentameter, having portrayed several Shakespearean heroes and antiheroes on stage and screen. Searching for the next King Lear: A critic shares his casting notes 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The show’s other performers deliver the iambic pentameter competently while signaling a character trait or two. A bold production of ‘Phaeton’ from Taffety Punk Theatre Company 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z “It must be pretty depressing for actors who have played a lot of Shakespeare to hear me beginning on what is an iambic pentameter,” he said. Trevor Nunn, British Shakespeare Master, Tries Something New: Directing Americans 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Iambic pentameter was the obvious form for something so unlikely and dramatic, Mr. Bartlett said, because it allows for “a heightened version of how we speak, with a sense of formality and a fluidity.” Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z On a whim, Bhatnagar looked in the debug logs of Pentametron, a repository of tweets that had been discarded because they were close to iambic pentameter but not perfect. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z And so we get a play that squeezes contemporary English into pentameter couplets — and a story that, while still too complex to summarize, doesn’t matter. Review: Rhyme Gone Wild in ‘The Metromaniacs’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z What's more, this screen adaptation of Shakespeare is impeccably acted by the entire ensemble cast, all of whom handle the iambic pentameter with noticeable aplomb. Denzel Washington is commanding in Joel Coen's bloody, bold and resolute "Tragedy of Macbeth" 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z In place of Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter, Park writes in sharp, staccato rhythms, with short lines that drive through the scenes a few syllables at a time. Review: In ‘Peerless,’ Elite College Admissions Are Something Wicked 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z His dancing pentameters would open my imagination, and help me to see depths, subtleties and possibilities in the dreariest desert island. Australian poet, Les Murray 2010-04-29T13:15:00Z Val as Romeo sprinting to her with all the hope of youth, the whole contemporary routine was a flowing, pretty iambic pentameter come to life. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: NASCAR's Michael Waltrip sputters out 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z At the same time, its use here reminds the reader of other elegiac poems – Gray's Elegy, perhaps, also in iambic pentameter and rhymed ABAB. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z Whatever window dressing an author might heap on top—iambic pentameter, swan feathers—the triangle demands that a choice be made, and, inevitably, that joy and sorrow will follow. Katia Bachko: Dance This Summer 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z It unpacks the unitary executive theory, it features pillow talk in iambic pentameter. Adam McKay's "Vice": A sly, irreverent portrait of Dick Cheney's monstrous power 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s just a matter of finding a strict form — it’s called iambic pentameter — to channel thought and feeling, and all successful art must find a useful marriage between form and content. Too Much Shakespeare? Be Not Cowed 2013-09-12T18:18:17Z The play, written in characteristically supple iambic pentameter, has an unforgettable music of its own, a set of rhythmic surprises sprung in the opening spondee — “Who’s there?” — and developed in a thousand different ways. ‘To Be or Not to Be’: Is It the Question or the Point? 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z "I'd get pulled up for mucking about with the iambic pentameter." Kerry Godliman: 'We're cracking up on stage for your entertainment' 2013-04-27T23:05:02Z Gaga’s lyrics are not particularly complex, but they can be weirdly poetic, chanted, as they often are, in perfect iambic pentameter: “I want your ugly, I want your disease,” she announced. Lady Gaga’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z It is also to see a newly fluent poet of pentameters, with their successive melodic ebb and swell. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z We are musing about the surprising linguistic affinities between Treknobabble and Shakespearean iambic pentameter – both of which Stewart is fluent in, having spent sizeable chunks of his five decades in acting immersed in them. Patrick Stewart: 'I can store emotions. No experience is ever wasted' 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z But most have preferred iambic pentameter, the default meter for English poets. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Earlier in Monday’s episode, there was some dispute over how a contestant pronounced another music/literature mash-up: “will.i.ambic pentameter,” he said. ‘Jeopardy!’ Tells Contestant: A ‘Gangster’ Is Not a ‘Gangsta’ 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z Neither actor delivers the most mellifluous iambic pentameter you’ve ever heard, and nor should they: the lines roll eagerly, earnestly, blushingly off their tongues, like eighth-graders reading and writing poetry for the first time. Romeo + Juliet at 20: how Baz Luhrmann's adaptation refuses to age 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z “I don’t have any interest in the challenges of the iambic pentameter.” Bill Nighy, Master of Misdirection 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Indeed, on occasion this time around one feels that the dictates of iambic pentameter are going to give way to a shout-out to Stanley’s beloved Stella. Review: Satiric Assault on the Origins of Scabrous Male Bonding in Politics 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z Plays in pentameter, plots seldom sunny; Footnotes insisting the Bard’s being funny, Brit kings with numerals, gore guaranteed – These are the things you must learn but won’t need. Style Invitational Week 1269: Mess with our heads 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z A happy ending — and the unexpected overlay of rhymed pentameter couplets — makes this the easiest of the eight to absorb. Review: Reliving ‘Private Lives,’ This Time Mostly Women’s 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z The degree to which this expertise assists listeners, even those with ears somewhat accustomed to iambic pentameter, is immeasurable. Perspective | Who needs a director, anyway? A classical theater in Staunton, Va., lets the actors run the show, and it’s a hit. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The iambic pentameter isn’t delivered with percussive éclat but spoken with conversational formality. Charles is king, Harry's in trouble and Kate's taking charge in Pasadena Playhouse's royal winner 'King Charles III' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z As a group, we were better at rhyme than rhythm, though we chased after the feet of a heavy iambic pentameter. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Until they can scan iambic pentameter or explain dramatic irony, my kids will have to keep their language G-rated. Mommy’s got a potty mouth 2013-06-03T00:30:00Z To start with the poetry: most of it is written in a relaxed version of iambic pentameter, punctuated here and there by more formal episodes, usually sonnets. The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber – review 2012-06-15T21:55:03Z In supple pentameter, Shakespeare explores the difference between the book learning the young men meant to engage in and the learning that emerges, despite their plans, from “the prompting eyes of beauty’s tutors.” Review: Young Bros and Maidens Harmonize in ‘Love’s Labor’s Lost’ 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z When you have an audience embroiled in problems of governance — and since no one has thought to release the Mueller report in iambic pentameter — might as well pluck “Julius Caesar” off the shelf. Review: In ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar,’ the Political Thrill Is Gone 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps now to ensure the mannerism is not overdone and the voice remains conversational, the iambic pentameter is pared to 4 stresses: "To build a sacrificial fire." Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z Flips the Bard: Tells one off in iambic pentameter. Style Invitational Week 1090: Talk undirty to us, in a poem with a ‘rude-sounding’ word It’s hard not to trust a 91-year-old who can still recite Shakespeare in perfect pentameter. Former Students and ‘Wynn Place Show’ Praise Wynn Handman 2013-12-25T21:24:07Z The idea was to broaden the company’s programming but also to adjust to a marketplace in which the appetite for show tunes exceeds that for iambic pentameter. Perspective | Sure Lancelot is dreamy, but ‘Camelot’ owes its success to a wistful audience 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Members of the audience, sitting on the floor or leaning against the wall, nodded their heads to the iambic pentameter. A Book Lover?s San Francisco 2010-12-04T05:00:00Z The iambic pentameter flows with the steady dignity of a great ship. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z More than 600 of you keyed in rhymes, haiku, free verse, iambic pentameter ... you name it. Seattle Times Twitter poetry contest concludes 2010-05-01T00:19:00Z Janice asks it most directly, in iambic pentameter: “How can one cope when chaos permeates?” In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z The classic rhythm of iambic pentameter, she told the Paris Review, “is as natural to me as breathing.” Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer-winning poet who drew on women’s experiences, dies at 89 About how to advise actors to deal with the Bard’s linguistic currency, iambic pentameter: “I really think Shakespeare’s most important word is at the end of his line,” he said. Perspective | How do you sell Shakespeare in 2020? The Englishman newly heading a storied D.C. theater has a playbook. 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Marvel as Marc Antony brings down the house with the funeral oration, spicing its pentameter cadence with the gumbo drawl of a southern senator. Review: Can Trump Survive in Caesar’s Palace? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The cast members — and they’re marvelous, to a one — deliver the script’s stately speech with such easy fluency that you forget they’re speaking in iambic pentameter. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z “King Charles III,” written in iambic pentameter by Mike Bartlett, imagines a future where the monarch subverts tradition and refuses to rubber-stamp the wishes of the elected government. 'King Charles III' to Reign on Broadway in October 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z “We’re taught that Shakespeare is a sacred thing, with the iambic pentameter and all that stuff,” he continued. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In this week’s Walking Dead, Ezekiel – iambic pentameter enthusiast and self-proclaimed King of the, erm, Kingdom – definitely had that third kind of day. The Walking Dead: season eight, episode four recap – Some Guy 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z The iambic pentameter, for example, or the crossword episode. ‘Inside No. 9’ Returns With More Cunning Puzzles 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z “What rap is for our culture, iambic pentameter was for the Elizabethans; it is heightening the speech of ordinary people.” American Playwrights Try to Reinvent the History Play 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z In this case, the book is deliciously witty, bawdy and full of loopy appeal — and written mostly in skillfully wrought iambic pentameter yet. Review: In ‘Head Over Heels,’ Jukebox Musical Meets Elizabethan Romance 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z He wrote in a smooth, carefully polished style, usually adhering to the traditional forms of English poetry, such as iambic pentameter, heroic couplets and rhyme. Derek Walcott, Nobel laureate whose poetry celebrated the Caribbean, dies at 87 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “It came out with this terrific poem written in iambic pentameter,” Preston recalled. AI is causing panic for authors. Now the courts are involved 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z But LLMs have also managed to ace the bar exam, explain the Higgs boson in iambic pentameter, and make an attempt to break up their users’ marriage. How AI Knows Things No One Told It 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z When schoolchildren are taught to imitate the structure of a haiku or the short-long thrum of iambic pentameter, they are effectively learning to follow algorithmic constraints. Perspective | AI is better at writing poems than you’d expect. But that’s fine. 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z This being so, Leithauser’s chapters cover such seemingly ho-hum subjects as iambic pentameter, iambic tetrameter, the stanza, enjambment, rhyming and wordplay. Review | Poetry matters. Two new books remind us why. 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Washington is no stranger to iambic pentameter, but his Macbeth is more piercing in his sighs than in his utterances. What makes Joel Coen's Shakespeare unique: His 'Macbeth' is haunted by other movies 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z There’s something about Shakespeare and the language that, as a Black performer, I naturally get: the rhythms, the scansion, the iambic pentameter. Why 'Macbeth' actor Corey Hawkins felt compelled to study the classics 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Much of the initial script’s Elizabethan iambic pentameter has been trimmed, while keeping the songs intact and leaving room for spontaneous actor-audience interactions. Pasadena Playhouse's 'Head Over Heels' questions pre-pandemic theater rules 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z “He’s not going to speak in iambic pentameter. ‘ Bravado or belligerent, it’s Joe Biden’s response to nearly everything: ‘C’mon, man!’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The construction of a billionaires’ principality in one of the most economically segregated cities on earth is of course the problem worth the angry iambic pentameter. In a Playground for the 1 Percent, an Arts Center for the Rest of Us 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z He often wrote in iambic pentameter, or close to it: Steve Earle’s Winsome Tribute to Guy Clark 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z She could explain why he came to use pentameters. Chaucer webchat: post a question now for expert Dr Marion Turner 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z The main problem of “Head Over Heels” is easily diagnosed: The music of the Go-Go’s, though appropriately festive, isn’t a natural fit for a story that traffics in faux Elizabethan iambic pentameter. Review: 'Pretty Woman' and 'Head Over Heels' try oh-so-hard to revive beauty and the beat for Broadway 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z Originally, his version didn’t use iambic pentameter, but he discovered that employing the verse made his lengthy script “shorter, cleaner and clearer”, he said. 'This play is full of firsts': behind the groundbreaking Go-Go's musical 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z But then the poet, Guillermo Vilas, found the pentameter of his game, to the cheers of those who obviously preferred the poet to the punk. The U.S. Open’s Last Day at Forest Hills 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z The spare, tightly rhythmical pentameter of Ruden’s Aeneid contrasts favourably with the loose, haphazard beats of most of her male rivals. Found in translation: how women are making the classics their own 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z It allows fine actors to speak in iambic pentameter, the mightiest of all metrical lines, which confers a sort of dignity on any character that speaks it. Mike Bartlett's 'King Charles III' puts Britain's royal family in a smart, dark Shakespearean frame 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z O’Neill added that he was inspired by Oscar Wilde to use iambic pentameter during narrated parts. Paul O'Neill created an over-the-top legacy with Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z He said he considered the Broadway version “shallower” and its language untrue to the tenets of iambic pentameter. 'This play is full of firsts': behind the groundbreaking Go-Go's musical 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z At a time when Sexton was giving readings accompanied by a rock band, Bishop was assigning her class exercises in iambic pentameter. Elizabeth Bishop’s Art of Losing 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z But it does have in actor Trevor Young Marston a slippery and verbally nimble Dorante, which is critical to a play that retains the iambic pentameter meter of Corneille’s original text. ‘The Liar’ takes alternative facts to another level 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z We need this to fight but also just because it’s fun to think about the moon, iambic pentameter or the sea. A year-end plea: don't let politics overshadow life's splendor | Steven W Thrasher 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Heroes and villains, the strong and the weak — the heightened language and the mighty weight of iambic pentameter dignify the greatest character and the least. 'The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses' is bloody, muddy, loud and grand 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z I vaguely remembered the term "iambic pentameter" from my schooldays. 'How I accidentally became a poet through Twitter' - BBC News 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z He walks over and starts talking in iambic pentameter. How to Make a Relationship Last: 5 Secrets Backed by Research 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s written in the style of Shakespeare’s history plays, right down to the iambic pentameter — so it feels like that one is in their ballpark. What’s coming to D.C. theater besides ‘Hamilton’? Two Post critics set the stage. 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z "Coach Roach, who wouldn't dare to approach," he said, his iambic pentameter flowing. Forget hump day — in boxing, Wednesday is hype day, as Alvarez-Cotto proves 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Bartlett uses verse and iambic pentameter to spin his web, leaning on “Macbeth” and “Richard III” and “King Lear.” Review: Broadway’s ‘King Charles III’ ingenuous, intriguing 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Agents hardly knew what to do with his parodies of Shakespeare in iambic pentameter, his impromptu foreign dialects and improvisations like “and look, a gentle rose, dying here anon ... like myself.” Jack Rollins Dies at 100; Sharpened Talent Like Woody Allen’s 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Shakespeare played with iambic pentameter his whole life. How Play Enriches Our Creative Capacity 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z What binds Whedon's spectacles with his Shakespeare are the quips, which sail in iambic pentameter in one and zigzag between explosions in the others. Review: 'Age of Ultron' is an Avengers overdose 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z He is also writing a curriculum for high school teachers, to help students learn iambic pentameter, the meaning of the sonnets, and how to make their own films. Rise, Restive Muse, 154 Times: All Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Through a New York Lens 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The form—a form that Dante helped to invent—is the sonnet, here reduced to its rudiments: fourteen lines, a rumor of pentameter, a tart couplet at the close. An Alaskan Poet’s Lyrics of Sex and Power 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? This Hilarious Tumblr Turns Your Favorite Pop Songs Into Shakespearean Sonnets 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Baker noted that the Yiddish translation retained “perfect iambic pentameter” of the original English poems. A Treasure House of Yiddish Prepares to Close 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s not rhymed, but it’s definitely in iambic pentameter like Shakespeare and Milton used in their poems, and were in the plays. Conversation on Daydreaming with Jerome L. Singer 2013-12-10T22:45:07.126Z And what if the National Organization for Marriage did their next mass mailing in iambic pentameter? Christian teen performs anti-gay rap in the forest, films it 2013-03-06T19:51:00Z Limerick contest winners Topics: , Limerick Contest, , Poetry, , Writers and Writing The response to Salon’s first weekly limerick contest was a tsunami of iambic pentameter and predictable rhymes for ‘Mitt.’ Limerick contest winners 2012-08-13T17:53:00Z The kids are taught that all prejudice of any kind is always wrong… but that bed tricks and iambic pentameter are inherently virtuous. A Point of View: On bees and beings 2012-06-03T10:32:45Z Little tricks of composition, such as a repeated cæsura after the seventh syllable of the pentameter, were employed to heighten the speed. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z It is divided into twelve chapters, and it is written in pleasantly modulated pentameters. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The first requirements of the sonnet, then, are that it shall have fourteen lines, and that these lines shall be iambic pentameters. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z His structure is loose and conversational, and his blank verse overruns the borders of the rigid pentameter and approaches the irregularity of prose. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z It is hard to find a piece of free verse that outshines a well-executed traditional Shakespearian sonnet, despite the later conforming to a rigid structure of 14 iambic pentameter lines and a strict rhyme scheme. Design Within Limits: The Urban Agriculture Project 2012-01-25T18:55:01Z Most of them are in iambic pentameters, and are for the greater part sextets in form; but though the versification is occasionally smooth, these compositions do little credit to the Muse who inspired them. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z You can easily commit it to memory if you bear in mind the fact that it ends a pentameter, while the other ends a hexameter. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z The lines are, as in all forms of the sonnet, iambic pentameters. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Interest in poetry waned over the last few generations as physicians became more preoccupied with high-tech biomedical research than with iambic pentameter. Well Blog: Doctor and Patient: The Doctor as Poet 2011-12-01T12:00:05Z One of the most interesting points about the little book to us nowadays is that it is accompanied by some Latin hexameters and pentameters and an epigram in the same language by More. Schools, School-Books and Schoolmasters 2011-11-16T03:00:25.713Z He has perfect sway of what I call a sham metre, But many admire it, the English pentameter, And Campbell, I think, wrote most commonly worse. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z The same may be said of the Romans, though with them it will occasionally be found that the semi-feet of the pentameter constitute what may be called accidental rhyme. Open Water 2011-10-14T02:00:31.043Z J. F. M. may find some account of Leonine verses, which "are properly the Roman hexameters and pentameters rhymed," in Price's edition of Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. i. p. cxviii. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 86, June 21, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-23T02:00:20.637Z The alternate hexameter and pentameter are, for most purposes, a more agreeable measure than the hexameter by itself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The swarm rush on to the call of one another, in hexameters 178 and pentameters. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In classic poetry what is known as elegiac verse is composed of couplets consisting of alternate hexameter and pentameter lines. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z The unrhymed iambic pentameter known as blank verse is really a form of free verse; it is a modified form of the unrhymed classical measure. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z He even tried a passage of “Evangeline” rendered into English pentameter verse, and thus satisfied himself that it was far less effective for his purpose than the measure finally adopted. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow And there is another feature which recommends the pentameter combined with the hexameter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z They were pentameters constructed according to my own ideas; I did not have in view any special school or rule. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 The common assumption is, that Chaucer borrowed the pentameter couplet directly from French poetry. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History They deviated more than Shakespeare, who did not always confine himself to the iambic foot and pentameter line in his blank verse. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z With iambic pentameter as the basis of the dialogue, the poet varies his measures as Shakespeare does his, and with very similar ends in view. Minor Poems by Milton I will here terminate my criticisms for the present, but I will offer you, along with them, a specimen of hexameter and pentameter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The sonnet may be briefly defined as a rimed poem in iambic pentameter, containing fourteen lines, divided into the octave of eight lines and the sextet of six. An Introduction to Shakespeare Coleridge also translated from Schiller the well-known distich describing and exemplifying the elegiac verse of Ovid: "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The average quatrain is in iambic pentameter with alternate lines rhyming. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers Despite the strong reasons which impel Dr. Kuntz to adhere to long measures, we believe he should compose more in pentameter. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Surry's pentameters often flow well, in spite of his false scheme of accentuation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Referring to the Spenserian stanza which is composed of nine lines, eight of which are iambic pentameters, and the ninth a hexameter or Alexandrine. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer His verses have the finish, in their way, of Pope’s couplet and Ovid’s pentameter. London Lyrics Thus Pope’s Iliad is written in iambic pentameter, in lines made up of five iambics; and Longfellow’s Hiawatha is trochaic tetrameter, each line containing four trochees. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers "When I Am Gone," a poem in pentameter quatrains by James Laurence Crowley, contains the customary allotment of sweet sentiment, together with some really commendable imagery. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 This is more requisite even than in the hexameter; for, in the pentameter, the verse, if it be at variance with the natural accent, subverts it more completely, and makes the utterance more absurd. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The first eight lines are iambic pentameters, and the ninth a hexameter, the stanza thus closing with a lingering cadence which adds greatly to the melody of the verse. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer An elegiac, lack-a-daisical, or pentameter verse, consists of four feet and two long syllables, one of which is placed between the second and third foot, and the other at the end of the verse. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue It follows, from what I have said, that the common pentameter, interspersed with anapœsts, would better convey celerity than the Alexandrine interspersed with them in a similar degree;—and it unquestionably does. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 The metre, which is well handled, consists of regular iambic pentameter quatrains with a couplet at the conclusion. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 In the model distich quoted by Coleridge— "In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column, In the pentameter still falling in melody back;" the pentameter is a better verse than the hexameter. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z The pentameter, instead of being a weaker echo of the hexameter, is the stronger line of the two, and has a weightier movement. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight The verses which boys are commonly taught to make are hexameters and pentameters. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue But the Alexandrine is longer by one foot—by one pulsation—than the pentameters among which it arises. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 "Evening Prayer", by Rheinhart Kleiner, is a poem of great beauty and real worth, couched in the alternating iambic pentameter and trimeter which this poet seems to have made his own particular medium of expression. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 A line containing five feet is called pentameter. English: Composition and Literature The language and metre are on the whole correct, in spite of deviations from classical usage, chiefly in the management of the pentameter. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" It is either hexameter or pentameter, according to the scansion? Notes and Queries, Number 204, September 24, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. It is a literal translation in iambic pentameter. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Most of Shakespeare’s plays are written in blank verse, which is unrhymed iambic pentameter, called heroic verse. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide It is iambic pentameter,—the most common verse in great English poetry. English: Composition and Literature Iambic pentameter, in which Milton's "Paradise Lost," much of Pope's poetry, Shakespeare's dramas, and, indeed, a large proportion of English verse, are written, is called heroic measure. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Ovid wished to balance the hexameter with the pentameter, and used a standard epithet to fill out the metre. The Last Poems of Ovid He first gives his reasons for preferring iambic pentameter to the ‘Reinartsvers,’ which some might think best to use. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography It must consist of exactly fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Epic poetry is written in a grand style, generally in pentameter, or hexameter; while the lyric adopts any verse that suits the emotion. English: Composition and Literature The meter is iambic pentameter; but the first foot of the second line is a trochee, and emphasizes thoughts with fine effect. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Every pentameter of the amatory poems and the first fifteen Heroides ends in a disyllable. The Last Poems of Ovid ‘Moreover, the iambic pentameter lends itself well to division into hemistichs, the principal characteristic of the ancient epic versification.’ The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography Find examples of blank verse, of rhymed pentameter, and of the two kinds of verse so common in L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College For example, “The Merchant of Venice” is in iambic pentameter, and “The Courtship of Miles Standish” is in dactylic hexameter. English: Composition and Literature It consists of nine verses, the first eight being iambic pentameter, and the ninth line iambic hexameter, or Alexandrine. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism The error was induced by nec at the start of the pentameter. The Last Poems of Ovid They're as likely as not to ask you to write a heroic poem in iambic pentameters, if you know what they are. When Patty Went to College Distich, couplet; usually in classical prosody the elegiac couplet of a hexameter and a pentameter, 162. The Principles of English Versification In my version of hexameters and pentameters I have not shirked the metre although it is strangely out of favour in English literature while we read it and enjoy it in German. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Unrhymed poetry, usually in iambic pentameter measure, is known as blank verse. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism G is written in uncial script, with no division between words but with indentation of the pentameters. The Last Poems of Ovid If you could only see the "Dream of Atossa" done into English pentameters by my curate, and my own "Prometheus"—well, there, this won't do—Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher. My New Curate The common term iambic pentameter is not so objectionable, but is to be rejected because of its similarity to the others, which are actually confusing. The Principles of English Versification Longfellow's "Evangeline" is written in hexameter, and Milton's "Paradise Lost" in pentameter. New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words Day and night he sang the praises of the one Beloved of both worlds and of those about His threshold, writing verses in the pentameter and hexameter forms, composing lyrics and long odes. Memorials of the Faithful At iii 44 B1 and C omit the lost pentameter, where the other manuscripts offer interpolations. The Last Poems of Ovid The Hymn to the Sea is the only real poem written in the English language in hexameters and pentameters. Platform Monologues The poem is a monologue, in unrhymed hexameters and pentameters. An Introduction to the Study of Browning The most common metrical form in my translation is iambic pentameter. Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse The rhythm of the lines is marked, the effect upon the ear being quite like that of English iambic pentameters hypercatalectic. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence The subject of transit must be Olympias, since otherwise the pentameter is without a subject. The Last Poems of Ovid A most singular volume--in hexameter and pentameter, verses. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two It consists of 170 lines, hexameters and pentameters; terse, poetical, classical. Anglo-Saxon Literature There would have been no more meaning in Poe's verse, if there had been less melody, if the poet had less devotedly studied the "book of iambs and pentameters." Inquiries and Opinions Though the prevailing verse is iambic pentameter, we rarely find more than three or four real accents. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway The preferable reading is mauis, since it links more closely to potes in the pentameter, and would be especially liable to corruption after maiora two lines previous. The Last Poems of Ovid The relative value of a single dactyl occurring in an iambic pentameter line cannot be predicated of cases in which the two forms alternate with each other throughout the verse. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. I was well pleased with a fair, sound copy of the Speculum Stultorum, in 4to., bl. letter, in hexameter and pentameter verses, without date. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Dactylic verses are measured by single feet, and are designated as tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, accordingly. New Latin Grammar In The Village he describes homely scenes with great power, in pentameter verse. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The word is metrically suited to the second half of the pentameter, before the disyllable: compare Tib I ii 70 & II iii 52, Fast V 118 & V 170, and Tr II 114. The Last Poems of Ovid The perception of variations in the measures of an iambic pentameter line was first taken up. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. "Ixion" in "Jocoseria," is in alternate hexameter and pentameter, which the author also employs here for the only time; it imitates the turning of the wheel on which Ixion is bound. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) The hand-books know little of spiritual harmonies, and do not go beyond their academic classifications of lyric and epic, and their catalogues of pentameters, hexameters, or alexandrines. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 8 National Spirit Pope's polished pentameters, when read, are very unlike the full-voiced hexameters of Homer; but the errors in the translation are comparatively few and unimportant, and his own poetry is in his best vein. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction In his later poetry Ovid shows a steadily increasing willingness to allow his pentameters to end with words other than disyllables. The Last Poems of Ovid In either case the unity, the 'pentameter feeling,' is not experienced until the end of the series unified is reached. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. Most blank verse makes use of the iambic pentameter measure, but we find many exceptions. Composition-Rhetoric The Latin poem, in hexameters and pentameters, attributed to Lactantius, is given at the foot of the page. Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 Thus in his blank verse Surrey was the forerunner of Milton, and in his rhymed pentameter couplet one of the heralds of Dryden and Pope. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction The -que logically belongs with fasces, joining it with praetextam: such dislocations are common in the pentameter because of its strict metrical requirements. The Last Poems of Ovid The same series of changes in the duration of the accented interval was made successively in each measure of the pentameter series. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. A quatrain consisting of iambic pentameter verse with alternate rhymes is called an elegiac stanza. Composition-Rhetoric Sometimes one would suggest the topic and the other write the distich; again, one would do the hexameter, the other the pentameter. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes He is claimed as the introducer of blank verse—the iambic pentameter without rhyme, occasionally broken for musical effect by a change in the place of the cæsural pause. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Korn's conjecture makes the pentameter an amplification of the hexameter, a common pattern in Ovid; its corruption to secretis would be easy. The Last Poems of Ovid A form which may fit the pentameter can be broken off early, and become a satisfactory tetrameter. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. The Spenserian stanza consists of nine lines: the first eight are iambic pentameters, and the last line is an iambic hexameter or Alexandrine. Composition-Rhetoric True, it is not plausible that Tell recited 100 lines of beautiful poetry while lying in wait for Gessler; neither is it likely that Prince Hamlet talked to himself in pentameters. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Jack retired to his seat, and for the next ten minutes indulged in a diatribe against classical learning in general, and hexameters and pentameters in particular. Jack Archer Unrhymed iambic pentameters—the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind. The Devil's Dictionary He customarily lay in bed until noon meditating pentameters on sunrise. Ponkapog Papers Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is written in iambic pentameter verse. Composition-Rhetoric There is a Latin narrative of the Battle of Hastings, in eight hundred and thirty-five hexameters and pentameters. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 To a large extent Schiller's version is a line-for-line rendering of the French alexandrines into German pentameters,—a thing by no means easy to do. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller In the elegiac he is, on the whole, Ovidian, though he is naturally freer, especially in the matter of endings both of hexameter and pentameter. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal This certainly looks like a case where a word had dropped out or had been stricken out by some proof-reader who limited the number of syllables in a pentameter verse by that of his finger-ends. Among My Books Second Series He was proud of his hexameter: "High winds roaring above me, dark leaves falling about me," and of his pentameter: "All men alike hate slops, particularly gruel." A Study of Poetry The word elegeion means nothing more than the combination of a hexameter and a pentameter, making together a distich, and an elegy is a poem of such verses. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities What Schiller did was to turn the prose of Werthes into pentameters of the style that he had made peculiarly his own. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The Song of Roland is written in the heroic pentameter; it is divided into "laisses," or stanzas, of irregular length, and contains about three thousand seven hundred and eight lines. National Epics I to hexameters tell, in pentameters I will confide it: During the day she was joy, happiness all the night long. Erotica Romana Whether we called the metre of the Prologue rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter, or rhymed couplets of ten-syllabled, five-stressed verse, the music, at least, was clear enough. A Study of Poetry But he is a genuine poet, and a generous, warm-hearted man, and in our opinion by far the greatest master of the pentameter that Rome ever produced. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Unequal to creative effort he undertook a translation of Racine's 'Phèdre' in German pentameters and finished it about the middle of January, 1805. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller A succession of rhymed pentameter couplets, with the sense complete in each couplet, was set forth as the proper vehicle for poetry; and this unenjambed distich fettered English verse for three-quarters of a century. Palamon and Arcite I almost see it worked into an hexameter and pentameter, and delighting the heart of an Eton boy. Friends in Council — First Series It shows Lanier's use of pentameter blank verse,—a use that is somewhat lacking in ease and clearness. Poets of the South There the pentameter answers to the second half of Virgil's hexameter verse, and rings the changes on the line that has preceded in a very similar way. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius One would suggest the idea or the title, and the other write the verses; or one write the hexameter and the other the pentameter. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller In this poem, as in the bulk of his work, he employs the unenjambed pentameter distich; that is, a couplet with five accented syllables in each verse and with the sense terminating with the couplet. Palamon and Arcite His stanza combinations reproduce all the well-proportioned grace of his French models, and to the pentameter riming couplet of his later work he gives the perfect ease and metrical variety which match the fluent thought. A History of English Literature After the toilsome day, spent in introducing iron works or in encouraging shipbuilding, he sat down at night, within the shadow of surrounding forests, to construct his careful, rhymed pentameters. Poets of the South Unrhymed pentameter, however, did not seem to satisfy him. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans The lines had just appeared in Friendship's Offering for 1834:— In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 Typically, it consists of eight pentameters and a final alexandrine. The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Pope accepted this hint as his guiding principle and proceeded to seek correctness by giving still further polish to the pentameter couplet of Dryden. A History of English Literature In the hexameter rises the fountain's watery column, In the pentameter sweet falling in melody down. The Poems of Schiller — Third period He could with difficulty keep from falling into rhyme in Catiline, and in the early version of The Warrior's Barrow he used rhymed pentameters. Early Plays — Catiline, the Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans It was advanced, a style that was past primitive blank verse or heroic pentameter. The Lani People In poetic form, though the Romanticists did not completely abandon the pentameter couplet for a hundred years, they did energetically renounce any exclusive allegiance to it and returned to many other meters. A History of English Literature First among the dramatists of the popular stage he discarded rime, and taking and vitalizing the stiff pentameter line of 'Gorboduc,' gave it an immediate and lasting vogue for tragedy and high comedy. A History of English Literature Does the rimed pentameter couplet prove itself a possible poetic vehicle for such emotion? A History of English Literature |
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