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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Esther wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> Okay -- Blank Verse, what the heck is it? How
do I do it? What did They use it for?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Blank verse is unrhymed verse. Shakespeare's
plays are (mostly) written in it, as were many other of the period. Most
Elizabethan blank verse is iambic pentameter. (Five feet per
line whose basic rhythm is iambic.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> <FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Also, I'm
looking for good info on the Norse forms, and the
Anglo-Saxon</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>> forms, too. Same questions as above, especially, "How do I do
it?"</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Come up to me at an event some time, and I'll hand
you the handout from my class. It includes Cedric's "The Birth of Fame", a
Saxon-style alliterative verse patterned on "The Battle of Maldon". It
includes his documentation, which tells you how to do it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, find Master Ulf sometime. He knows a
great deal about it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Robin of Gilwell / Jay
Rudin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>