Bard of Avon

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
>
> 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).

Geoff:
But the chief point I was making was that the quote that Steve Van casually 
tossed into the group didn't look as if it would fit any metrical pattern at all. 
Plus the dates I quoted made it rather unlikely that our friend in Stratford 
(Warwickshire that is - not the East End of London!) was the author.