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41:Iambic Pentameter: The Rhythm of Life?
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53-   its in the speaking because on the page it is inert. When you [24]speak
54:   those words aloud, they literally jump off the tongue and the rhythm is
55-   the easiest of all meters to find.
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57-   I asked Ben Crystal about this [25]in our interview a few months ago.
58:   He said that iambic pentameter is the rhythm of our English language
59:   and of our bodies a line of that poetry has the same rhythm as our
60-   heartbeat. A line of iambic pentameter fills the human lung perfectly,
61:   so its the rhythm of speech.
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63-   I think this is true. When you [26]learn how to speak verse, you soon
64:   discover that its a very instinctive rhythm. Once you relax and go with
65-   the flow, it comes naturally. And, strange as it might sound, classic
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95-          independently, are less obviously iambic pentameter, yet they do
96:          not violate the rhythm. The fourth line is clearly unmetrical
97-          and removes the sense that we are listening to verse.
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106-          Shakespeare, at least in the plays I have translated, did not
107:          write verse lines with the rhythm of (4). To make this line
108-          sound a bit more like Shakespeares iambic pentameter, we need to
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282-  26. http://shakespeare.about.com/od/teachingshakespeare/a/ts_verse.htm
283:  27. http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/03/22/iambic-pentameter-the-rhythm-of-life.htm#gB3
284-  28. http://shakespeare.about.com/b/
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287-  31. http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/03/25/10-seconds-to-get-into-drama-school.htm
288:  32. http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/03/22/iambic-pentameter-the-rhythm-of-life.htm#commentform
289-  34. http://www.fullmeasurepress.com/
290:  36. http://shakespeare.about.com/b/2009/03/22/iambic-pentameter-the-rhythm-of-life.htm#commentform
291-  37. http://shakespeare.about.com/od/temporary/a/iambic_penta.htm