[Bards] Need help with formats
Meggan Cividanes
harperaria at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 17 09:17:16 PST 2004
Blank verse is (usually and most relevant for SCA) defined as verse consisting of unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter.
~Lilas MacGuffin
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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