Thursday, January 12, 2012

Is "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke an iambic pentameter?

Yes. The basic formula is there but as the previous answerer said, it varies to relieve boredom,or to fit in a word that would be awkward otherwise,but when that happens another 'error ' is made to maintain the symmetry. It isn't easy,as anyone finds out if they try doing it.Shakespeare(or Bacon,if it was really him) wrote in iambic pentameters.Cly style,but hard to do.

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