[Bards] Need help with formats

[ED Reese]

Thank you! 
 
That's very helpful, hope I'm not too dreadful at it. :-)
 
Esther

Alden Drake <alden_drake at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
1. Blank verse - I know nothing about this.  I like structure. :)
 
2. Iambic pentameter is a poetic line containing five Iams.
 
An Iam is a foot containing two syllables where the first is unstressed and the second is stressed. e.g.  (da DA)
 
So iambic pentameter is: (da DA) (da DA) (da DA) (da DA) (da DA)
 
example:
 
Is this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?
(is THIS the FACE that LAUNCH'D a THOUsand SHIPS)?
 
Iambic tetrameter is pretty fun too (four iambic feet).
 
3. I have some notes somewhere on Anglo-Saxon/Norse/Old English poetry from Thomas Atte Wood of Epping.  I'll see if I can find them.  

~Alden
 


ED Reese <reese_esther at yahoo.com> wrote:

Okay -- Blank Verse, what the heck is it? How do I do it? What did They use it for?

I'm still struggling with Iambic Pentameter, too, but am beginning to see the idea of it -- thank you, Tiggy!

Also, I'm looking for good info on the Norse forms, and the Anglo-Saxon forms, too. Same questions as above, especially, "How do I do it?"

Thanks!

Esther


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