The river in Huckleberry Finn is a lietmotif for freedom and all of its dangers.
I can drive. Visibility is up to ten feet.
"This a / bove all / to thine / ownself / be true"
is an example of five iambic metres.
Hamlet laments his own life in a monodic fashion is his "To be or not to be" speech.
Current sci-fi movies like to use aliens as a form of machinery to solve the problem with their plots.
I sat and relaxed with my faithful hound
As bad sitcoms and commercials abound
Until it blended into a monotonous sound .