RE: Off topic: New Year's frivolity

["M Gauthier" iamiriam@xxxxxxxx]

This is why I believe Shakespeare is ultimately quite easy to perform. As
an actor who preferred Shakespeare over other classical writers, if you are
lucky enough to play a character who speaks in iambic pentameter, after time
you realize that Will really does do most of the work for you, that is, if
you LET him.

Mimi Gauthier LeBien


> Then I worked on it a bit to finish it off

You mean... you mean, this is P.M.Godfrey? I was wondering who it was. I
was
looking for caesuras, or some interior secret scheme. The internal rhymes
threw me --

The MEASURE of our English speech is such
that anyone with very little care
can write blank verse. Not very good, I GRANT,
nor much to be esteemed, but still blank verse.
The five-foot line, the iamb's CONSTANT BEAT,
flow trippingly from off our tongues, our pens.
And quite WITHOUT our will or our INTENT,
we find WITHIN a passage MEANT as prose
a line, some FEET, or half a dozen more
of this the METER native of our tongue