Shakespeare and Iambic Pentameter

Shakepeare and music are very simular in structure. In Western music we follow, basic time signatures to block out the number of beats in a bar, 4/4 being the most popular. Depending on the style of music we can progress to 5/ 8, 12/ 8 and so forth. Simply put Iambic Pentameter is: where you sit down and mark out the number of syllables in each word for each line. Use ticks above the words: Titus Andronicus (play), Aaron the Moor character Act 5 - SCENE ONE, Ay, that I had not done a thousand more. Even now I curse the day and yet I think few come within the compass ..... Iambic is a tool designed to assist in musicality of a shakepeare monologue. I suggest you also do this out loud. It does'nt matter that your neighbours here you talking to yourself, you are. 

• Posted By Althea
• Jul 10, 2018
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