A rhythmic ten-syllable pattern Jiang presents as the musical device that makes Shakespeare memorable.
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iambic pentameter
A rhythmic ten-syllable pattern Jiang presents as the musical device that makes Shakespeare memorable.
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Shakespeare was experienced as performance and music by ordinary audiences, not primarily as a school text.
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"...Shakespeare creates music in his plays is through a device called iambic pentameter, OK? Iambic pentameter, you know, right? Iambis is just the arrangement..."
"...right? It's really easy for us to remember songs. So, flat iambic pentameter, Shakespeare's plays are memorable, beautiful, and resonant, meaning they touch our..."
"All right. So, again, this is an iambic pentameter. To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in..."
"...memorize but as but but but the benefit of I make pentameter is that actually the speeches are pretty easy to memorize okay and..."
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