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1229446 No.1229446 [Reply] [Original]

Iambic pentameter. What's good about it, why do I care and how do I use it? Cheers /lit/

>> No.1229447

what are you like 12.
its 10 syllables, what more do you need to know

>> No.1229458

>>1229447
>bad grammar
>isn't aware of the iambic part of iambic pentameter
>accuses others of being twelve

>> No.1229481

>>1229446
Iambic pentameter is most commonly used in the English sonnet. Unless you have more than a passing interest in poetry you have no real need to know anything about it.

>> No.1229485

>>1229458

I am twelve and what is this you critic?

>> No.1229506

I have more than a passing interest in poetry, but I can't stand such emphasis on metre, especially given how differently people stress words.

>> No.1229515

>>1229506

Depends how it's used really, a shitty poem in iambic pentametre is only going be a rythmic shitty poem. Used properly in conveys a theme in the poem.

>> No.1229737
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1229737

The movie 'Yes' was written entirely on the Iambic Pentameter.

>> No.1229755

>>1229446
Twelve year olds can define iambic pentameter. High-school kids can write a few verses in iambic pentameter. College kids will write their bad poetry in this meter, and think it helps thier poetry not be so bad. It doesn't. College grads will use iambic pentameter thinking it makes their mediocre poetry better, and still be wrong.

>> No.1229762

>>1229755

I believe that this Anon is right.
The meter won't enhance your poetry.
Instead, reflect a while on what you wrote,
And try again to order what you see.

>> No.1229780

>>1229762
you fucked up on the first line .

>> No.1229793

Whoever said "most common use is sonnets" can smoke a dick. This supple, subtle meter is used in "blank verse"--unrhymed, keen, and fluent, made famous in the plays of Shakespeare and the poetry of Milton, Byron, Frost. What's good about it? Think of it this way: Charles Dickens, in his novels, often slips to writing long and breathless paragraphs in pure blank verse (though not laid out as such) because the meter carries you along, and lends a forward-motion to the story; the reader's ear gets caught up in the rhythm despite the fact that Dickens, in these books, does not present himself as writing verse. There's something to the basic quality of metronomic meter that can carry your ear along while you just read the story.

Now read that paragraph out loud, OP.

>> No.1229796

>>1229780

If you want to get all sniffy, he only fucked up the first line relative to the second in the same way that Chaucer fucked up the first line relative to the second in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. He's missing a syllable but not a stress.

>> No.1229819

>>1229796

This guy has it. The rest of you faggots need to study before posting shit. Learn how to dock syllables, add inversions etc.

>> No.1229856

>>1229446
Here's what they taught me in school about iambic pentameter:

It has 10-syllables per line, which alternate their stresses. In Shakespeare it's normally the upper class characters who use iambic pentameter and the common people who speak in prose. It also mimics the heartbeat, which enhances the emotional effect of the speech.

>> No.1229875

english speech is iambic naturally, it isn't hard.