Without doing a search - do you know what the Iambic Pentameter is?

[Itcouldhavebeenbeetroot]

And if so when were you taught it?

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Miss. Richardson Greeny!

Luckily I did have Spennie in the first year or I wouldn't know about apostrophes, but my grammar stops about there.

After that it's all Chaucer, Shakespeare, Austen, Wordsworth etc...

And I STILL don't get the differnce between practise and practice!!!

(please no one explain, I fear I'm a lost cause)

Oh sorry Beetroot question was 'when' not 'where'.(my higher order reading scanning skills could also do with some development)

In the 5th or maybe 6th form I think.

I had JMR as housemistress, tutor AND English teacher for 5 years , God, I was sick of the sight of her!! Good teacher though

Actually Greeny thinkng about it I only had her in the 6th form. before that it was Tom Rob, but I think he was probably before your tme.

He was utter crap. Nice guy. crap teacher. Just read interesting stories to us. Nice but ineffective.

JMR was one of the better ones.

Who was the large , feamle spinster, who also taught english? I had her in the 6th form too, I didn't know what she was talkimg about.

When doing o'levels. The sound of it can still be summoned up at will this many years later - de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum, de dum.

OK, this has been playing on my mind all day:

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

is not de-DUM de-DUM de-DUM de-DUM
... well not the first line, not for me anyway!

please explain

Without reading reat of thread .... the classic shakespearian rythmn with 5 'feet' - didum, didum, didum, didum, didum.
Um, suspect I learnt it at GCSE level...

I was taught in school but forgot it then went to drama school and had my memory jogged, then married an actor who's particularly good at Shakespeare and now it's set in stone.

something to do with counting 5 lambs??

de-dum, de-dum, de-dum etc - Oh, It's the Archers' theme tune!!!

gingerbear

10 syllables
5 doube pairs
is that right

first year senior.....so y7 now

i do
was taught at school, no idea when! (I am 40)

We did it year 11 as its noted in my GCSE R&J book! I'm just starting OU Shakespeare short course so have it out again atm!
Roisin Are your school performing at the F?

Five 'feet', each of which can be a dactyl (tum-tiddy) or a (errrm...) spondee (tum-tum)? Or was that Latin?
God that's a long time ago!

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

He has gone against the stress on purpose and then the rest of the speech goes back into IP. This is too stress the dispute between the two families

Yes; not sure I was taught it at school but my mother was an English teacher so I sort of absorbed stuff like that.

iambic is a rising , pent + five, meter + beat.

shakespeare uses it in his sonnets & much of his other stuff.
hence much quoting of prologue to r & j

I have been mulling that first line over all day - becasue it can be said both ways and the actor can make a choice.
It can be a double stress at the beginning and then back into the Iambic - I think this is the best way