Word: iambic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From this moment on, the play elaborates the blindingly original premise that modern life would appear pretty silly if described in Elizabethan English. When Constance, who soon slips into iambic pentameter like all the other characters, describes someone as a creep and Desdemona is mystified, she says absent-mindedly: "Creep--it's colloquial for 'base and noisome knave...
...exactly midnight, chant this Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher quote in forced iambic pentameter: All political decisions are taken under great pressure, and if a treaty serves its turn for ten or twenty years, the wisdom of its framers is sufficiently confirmed...
...friends just came and told me that they saw Dad's ghost whilst they kept the watch. Not to mention I have an odd fixation on this young woman whose father is a total geek. To top it all off, I am starting to speak compulsively in iambic pentameter (which is really getting on my roommate's nerves). I am such a mess. Even my cloak is inky. Help me anon...
Kurkjian, whose campaign literature is writtenin iambic pentameter, says she was inspired to runfor public office when she found out there was ahole in the ozone layer...
...change. "I don't think it was as dramatic a break as people have said it was." He averts his eyes; he's probably had to explain this before. "The pattern, the abstract form, has a life cycle...It seemed to me, maybe 20 years ago, that the iambic pentameter had become extremely dull...I think that's changed. I think some people now are writing it in a way that's interesting...And my own new book is quite formal--in a different...