From the depths of Macbeth’s torment to the loving declarations of Verona’s star-crossed lovers, the pulse of iambic pentameter sets the stage for William Shakespeare’s timeless explorations of the ...
It's poetry — rhyming couplets written in perfect iambic pentameter, those ten-syllable lines of alternating emphasis made famous by authors of sonnets and blank verse. But unlike your average metered ...
What is the matter with our Mary Jane? With apologies to A.A. Milne, Mary Jane hasn't lost her wits. She's begun to study scansion, and she counts the syllables in everything she reads -- from the ...