Word: iambic
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...work on it and you work on it," he says. "And then you get the cheer line that comes to you. You try it again. And then you get it down to the point where it really works." He calls getting the lines just right "going iambic...
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...