Bard of Avon

[Carol]

Geoff wrote:
> Agreed. Shakespeare wrote in blank verse. <snip>

Carol responds:

Well, usually. Of course, he also wrote sonnets that rhymed ABAB CDCD
EFEF GG and other poems such as "the Phoenix and the Turtle," whose
rhyme scheme I don't remember (was it heroic couplets?). Some of the
dialogue in the various plays is in prose, especially the comic lines.

But, yes. Most of the great lines that we remember are in blank verse
(that's unrhymed iambic pentameter for anyone who doesn't already know).

I remember reading a novel as a little girl in which the child heroine
shows her aunt a poem she's written and gets an unfavorable reaction.
The girl says, "But it's blank verse!" to which the aunt replies
dryly, "Yes. Very blank." I should read the book again considering
that I still remember that scene after all these years. I think it was
"Emily of New Moon." Has anyone else ever read that book?

Carol, wishing that kids these days could get lost in books the way
she used to