Bard of Avon

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> > 
> > 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.
>
Carol:

I see. But we had already established that it wasn't Shakespeare, so I
thought I'd take the post in a slightly different direction and talk
about blank verse.

Carol, who agrees with the rest of Geoff's post, which is why she
snipped it!