TDR 3560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Polonius, Spondee, Elision

• School: Belmont University
• Department: Theatre and Drama
• Course: TDR 3560
• Professor: Jaclynn Jutting

Document Summary

Hamlet, like all shakespeare, is written in iambic pentameter, and usually in verse. Iambic pentameter is a pattern of 10 unstressed, stressed syllables per line. Each foot is 2 syllables, one unstressed and one stressed, and each line is made up of 5 feet. It looks like: u / | u / | u / | u / | u / A masculine ending has 11 syllables and looks like: u / | u / | u / | u / | u / | / Anapest- a line that ends unstressed- u / | u / | u / | u / | u / | u. Spondee- two stressed syllables in a foot- / / Peric- two unstressed syllables in a foot- u u. Elision- smashing two words together to fit the rhyme scheme. When shakespeare breaks iambic pentameter, he is indicating that the character is.