![]() (Quick aside on this - it’s not just classical literature and poetry that use it, the theme song of Pokémon is also written in iambic pentameter so any works written in that meter can fit really well to that tune, I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson is a fun one because of the depressing nature of the poem juxtaposed against the uplifting beat of the tune) ![]() Example: Opening line of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12, “When I do count the clock that tells the time” Its use, especially by Shakespeare, is a great way of giving dialogue a very natural, but not intrusive, poetic feel and style.įor those not familiar, iambic pentameter is a metric used in English poetry and verse drama first introduced by Chaucer which follows a rhythm of stressed and unstressed syllables. Tolkien loved iambic pentameter, as a linguist it’s well documented that it was his favourite meter to write in, and a lot of the dialogue in LotR (especially by the elves) is written that way. ![]() One thing that I haven’t seen discussed at all so far is the use of iambic pentameter in RoP, Ep5 in particular was when I really noticed it, and all the examples below are what I picked up from that episode, although I may go back and re-watch Ep1-4 with this in mind.
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