Poetry

Blank verse = Unrhymed Iambic pentameter

                                Most main characters normal speech

Rhyme  =

                                Royalty noble people at the end of each scene

Prose – normal language

                                Language  Plebeians

 

 

 

 

Marlowes mighty line

 

Iamb – soft / loud

Iambic pentameter – 10 syllables = 5 feet     2 syllables = 1 foot 

 

 

 

Shall I / compare / thee to / a sum/mers day?

 

You blocks, / you stones, / you worse, / than sense/less things!

 

 

 

 

Sentence/ word inversion

 

I ate the sandwich.

 

5 different ways

 

The sandwich I ate.

The sandwich ate I.

Ate I the sandwich.

I the sandwich ate.

Ate the sandwich I.

 

This makes it sound important, adds drama, and to attract the readers attention.

 

 

Omissions

(Contractions)

Used to make the speakers sound more natural.

 

                                                I’ = in

 

Tis = it is               

 

Ope = open                           e’er = ever

 

O’er = over                            oft = often

 

Gi’ = give                               a’ = he

 

Ne’er =never                         ere = before

 

  1^st triumeverate = the three rulers of the Roman Empire

 

Julius Caesar – plebians

                                                ---- these two go to war with each other

Pompey – Patricians – Noble ancestors

 

Crassius – cobbler –shoe maker soles/souls shoe and in you

 

 

Rome was a republic – Senate Aristocrats

 

Brutus – about people that would assassinate there ruler

 

 

 

 

Lupercal – February 15^th it’s the feast of the founding of Rome

                                Founded by two brothers that were raised by wolves( Romulus Remus)

 

March 15^th - the ides of mach when Caesar was killed

 

 

2^nd triumeverate 

Octalaius Caesar ------------------he is Caesars nephew

 

Augustus