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Datchet Mead
NOTES
Introduction
The Metre of the Play. — It should be understood at the
outset that 7netre, or the mechanism of verse, is something alto-
gether distinct from the music of verse. The one is matter of rule,
the other of taste and feeling. Music is not an absolute necessity
of verse ; the metrical form is a necessity, being that which con-
stitutes the verse.
The plays of Shakespeare (with the exception of rhymed pas-
sages, and of occasional songs and interludes) are all in unrhymed
or blank verse ; and the normal form of this blank verse is illus-
trated byiii. 4. i of the present play : " I see I cannot get thy
father's love."
This line, it will be seen, consists of ten syllables, with the even
syllables (2d, 4th, 6th, 8th, and loth) accented, the odd syllables
(ist, 3d, etc.) being unaccented. Theoretically, it is made up of
fivey^^/of two syllables each, with the accent on the second sylla-
ble. Such a foot is called an iambus (plural, iambuses^ or the Latin
iambi) f and the form of verse is called iambic.
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