There is an absolutely fascinating piece up at Believer Mag about Ben Thomas, editor of the Evening Whirl, an odd St. Louis crime tabloid that reported (almost always in iambic pentameter) the ...
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 ...
Harold Mozley (Letters, 29 April) is wrong. “The mess we inherited from Labour” is an iambic tetrameter, not pentameter = three iambic beats, not five, on three second syllables. “Strong and stable ...
Joseph Fiennes listens in on a Shakespeare session at a South London evening class. Bruce Wall has taught Shakespeare across the world. His students include city bankers, Broadway actors and several ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Supervising sound editor, sound designer, and re-recording mixer Johnnie Burn has done everything from the almost ...
Relax. This is not a column about iambic pentameter. This is a column about the secret history of the English language. But the story of English happens to be the story of iambic pentameter, too. Even ...
It is scary how addictive reading Deadpool talking in iambic pentameter is, as written by Ian Doescher and drawn by De Sousa Oliceira in today's Deadpool #21. but most impressive for me, was giving us ...