What is the effect of Iambic pentameter used in plays and poetry such as shakespeare's?
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To many people, poetry is similar to music, and the different types of poetry have similar effects to the different kinds of music. For example, many people find Jazz exciting and waltz relaxing, so it is in poetry, iambic pentameter would be the Jazz of poetry, and simple rhyming the waltz.
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A heartbeat.
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to add effect to the poem when being read aloud
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COME and LISten to m' STORy bout a MAN named JED, A POOR mount'NEER barely KEPT his FAM'ly FED Shakespeare it ain't, but that rhythm and cadence has kept those words in my memory for over forty years. Dear God, when will it END!!?
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It can be used to distinguish between classes. For example, when Hamlet talks to the King or Queen, he speaks in iambic verse. When he speaks to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, he speaks in prose, which denotes their lower class (and his lack of regard for them). It is always interesting when characters speak to royalty in prose or to groundlings in iambic pentameter. If asked to examine such passages (assuming you are a student), it will definitely be worth extra points to note and analyse the effect of verse or lack thereof.
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