Word: iambics
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...Pound was only partly right. Poetry did need to escape from its iambic prison, but not break its neck in the attempt. It is high time this pseudo poetry of disjecta membra was put in its place, as you have done in the fine peroration of the article's last two paragraphs...
Typically, the singer delivers a line or two of iambic pentameter which is followed by a complementary instrumental figure which leads into the second line which is often a word for word repetition of the first line. This second line is often punctuated at the beginning with an explanation like "Yeah, Lord have mercy," or "Baby." The third line resolves in some way the thought described in the first two lines. Thus every song or spoken phrase in a Blues number is balanced or commented upon by an instrumental response often carrying with it as important a message...
They are right. Director Jean de Rigault carves his laughs out of the rich lines of iambic pentameter, relying very heavily on the full tone range of his actor's voices, their bodies--especially arm gesturing--and the expanse of the stage. A fine example comes in one of the very first scenes when Orgon, the master of the house, returns from a business trip and asks the maid, Dorine, what has happened during his absence. She answers that his wife has been sick, indeed had to be bled. But Orgon is interested only in hearing about Tartuffe, the religious...
Moliere's play conforms strictly to the dramatic conventions of his time. The action takes place at one point in time, in the same place, in five acts. The protagonists speak in rhymed iambic pentameter throughout. Within these limitations Moliere, assisted by Le Treteau de Paris, has managed to create at the Loeb a comedy, which is at the same time so disturbing that, as Stendahl put it, we dare not always laugh...
...part of Rosalind's confidante Celia, Charles Kay heightened the hu mor simply by reciting his iambic rantings in a sonorous baritone. And the actor-actors, headed by Jeremy Brett as Orlando, supported their mates with straight-faced manliness...