| Author | Message | ||
| Sandra Howlett
New member Username: dancer Post Number: 38 Registered: 01-2009 |
Can anyone tell me if iambic pentameter should be rhyming, and if so, is it customary to rhyme lines 1/3? If I rhyme 1/2 and 3/4 is that too much in so close proximity? | ||
| Fred Longworth
Senior Member Username: sandiegopoet Post Number: 5481 Registered: 05-2006 |
Iambic pentameter per se is simply five metrical feet with the stress on the second syllable of each foot. dah-DAH-dah-DAH-dah-DAH-dah-DAH-dah-DAH It can rhyme, or not rhyme, relative to preceding or following lines. If it does not rhyme, this is referred to as blank verse. An example of where an iambic pentamenter line does rhyme is a Shakespearean sonnet, which follows the following rhyme scheme: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG * * * * * Hope this answers your question. Fred | ||
| Hugh W Walthall
Member Username: xenophon Post Number: 52 Registered: 11-2008 |
Ever the pragmatist, Shakespeare's plays are largely written in blank, ie unrhymed iambic pentameter, but at the end of the scenes the lines start to rhyme, so the actors playing cards and smoking tobacco in the wings can know it's almost time for their entrance. I go now the bell... ...it is a knell, that summons thee to heaven or to hell. When the choice is between gold, silver and lead to win the girl, the girl arranges for a song to be sung-- every line of which rhymes with lead, while hero boy makes his choice... Songs aren't always iambic pentameter in S., and a lot of the comedy, including Falstaff and Hal (some of the greatest of the greatest of Shakespeare's oeuvre) is prose. We are the Moon's men... Milton explains why he has used blank verse as opposed to the "bondage" of rhyme in Paradise Lost... Jacques Lacan, Jacques Lacan you really turn me on.... | ||
| Gary Blankenship
Moderator Username: garydawg Post Number: 27337 Registered: 07-2001 |
Sandra, an absolute requirement for your poetry reference shelf is The Book of Forms 3rd Edition by Lewis Turco. Get the last as it is the most complete. And we need a 4th, but apparently he prefers to revise the 3rd as it is republished http://www.lewisturco.net/ Even if does dis free verse. Smiles. Gary Celebrate Walt with Gary: http://www.poetrykit.org/pkl/tw10/tw4conte.htm | ||
| Sandra Howlett
New member Username: dancer Post Number: 41 Registered: 01-2009 |
Guys, thanks so much for all the valuable info! Sandy |
