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Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor

Why Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter - David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor

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Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquated language. But a quick peek into the rhythm of his words reveals a poet deeply rooted in the way people spoke in his time and still speak today. Why do Shakespeares words have such staying power? David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor uncover the power of iambic pentameter. Lesson by David T. Freeman and Gregory Taylor
Date: 2020-08-22

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This was great. English is my second language and learning this stuff specially without teacher during quarantine is kind of hard. I watched so many videos about iambic pentameter but non of them helped me like this. I totally understood. Thank you: )
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Morgan: Yes Ms. I have an opinion about everything?
Kat Stratford: Do you want this in Iambic pentameter
Morgan: You not gonna fight me on this?
Kat: I'm really looking forward to writing it
Morgan: Get outta my class! OUT GET OUT!

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Because Asians love Haiku and nowadays it's an us versus them coronaourobousvirus ObamacareObamaphone American exceptionalism thing? I never really enjoyed Shakespeare anyways. Oh yeah thanks TED
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Dennis Praeger and some other radio personalities refer to their age since I am (13). Is Intersting maybe they teach that in Jewish parochial elementary schools.
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This is misleading - Shakespeare's plays are mostly written in verse, it's not just something 'prosaic' characters lapse into in heightened states of emotion
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Okay help needed. At 4: 04 it shows 'to be or not to be' as iambic parameter. How is this the case when the the final word 'question' is said as 'quest-ion?
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At 4: 23 when showing Trochaic Hexameter, surely the FIRST syllable is stressed, then the second unstressed, not as shown this was very confusing!
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