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pentameter
«A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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category, Category As, checks, dislikes, distinguish, ghosts, hamlet, Hamlets, in the same category, operas, pentameter, pentameters, postulate, postulates, quarrels, soap, soap opera, soap operas, stations
«BLANK-VERSE, n. Unrhymed iambic pentameters --the most difficult kind of English verse to write acceptably; a kind, therefore, much affected by those who cannot acceptably write any kind.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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acceptably, blank verse, iambic, pentameter, pentameters, unrhymed
«Shakespeare wrote his sonnets within a strict discipline, fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming in three quatrains and a couplet. Were his sonnets dull? Mozart wrote his sonatas within an equally rigid discipline - exposition, development, and recapitulation. Were they dull?»
Author: David Ogilvy
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couplet, couplets, exposition, Expositions, fourteen, iambic, Mozart, pentameter, pentameters, recapitulation, rhyming, rigid, sonata, sonatas, sonnet, Sonnets, strict
«In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery column; / In the pentameter aye falling in melody back.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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Aye, column, hexameter, melody, pentameter, pentameters, silvery, The Fountain