♪ IAMBIC PENTAMETER! ♪ by Matthew Patrick Davis

Hey Shakes-nerds! Time to learn about Iambic Pentameter! May this be required curriculum in theatre classes around the world.

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Written and Developed for "Shakespeare(ish)," a Rogue Artists Ensemble Production: http://www.rogueartists.org

Directed by Chris Leps
Color correction by Sean Cruser

LYRICS:
Time to learn about Iambic Pentameter
Don't be a Shakespearean amat'er
If you're playing Romeo or Hamlet 'r
Lear
Pentameter's
Here
To help you to perform
Shakespeare!

It goes like this:
"duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH-duh-DUH"
10 beats!
"(duh-DUH)(duh-DUH)(duh-DUH)(duh-DUH)(duh-DUH)"
5 feets!

Two beats in a foot and most feet are iambs
And sometimes the ends of the iambs have rhy-mes

But hey, what is an iamb anyway?

IAMB
Here, I'll explain! I'm an iamb!
"duh-DUH. duh-DUH."
An iambic foot has an unstressed syllable
Followed by a stressed!
"duh-DUH."

And that's the kinda foot that I am
I am an iamb!

TROCHEE:
Trochee! Trochee!
A stressed syllable first then an unstressed one
"DUH-duh. DUH-duh."

IAMB:
"duh-DUH."

TROCHEE:
"DUH-duh."

IAMB:
"duh-DUH."

FEM. ENDING:
And don't forget about me boys:
I'm a feminine ending
Instead of ending at the 10th beat, I just add one more
That's what a feminine ending is for
"duh-DUH-duh..."

IAMB:
"duh-DUH."

TROCHEE:
"DUH-duh."

FEM. ENDING:
"duh-DUH-duh..."

IAMB:
"To be or not to be:"

TROCHEE:
"That is--

FEM. ENDING:
--the question:"

TROCHEE:
"Now is--"

IAMB:
"--the winter of our discon--"

TROCHEE:
(interrupting)
"--OUR disCONtent!"

NARRATOR:
No, Trochee, stop it!

TROCHEE:
"BUT soft!"
"BUT soft WHAT light THRU yonDER winDOW breaks!"
"BUT soft!" "BUTT soft!"

FEM. ENDING:
Stop saying Butt soft!

IAMB:
It's okay, Feminine, I got this:
"But soft what light thru yonder window breaks?"
Is an example of iambic Willy Shakes!

Oh, see, it all sounds so much sweeter
When you analyze the meter

Now ya won't be an amat'er
Ya know about Iambic Pentameter
You could play Romeo or Hamlet 'r
Juliet or Lear
Now you can perform
Shakespeare!

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