This emphasis sounds unnatural in comparison to the more conversational iambic rhythm of the other characters in the play. Perhaps Shakespeare is emphasising the other-worldliness of the witches ...

"Rhythmical figures" in English iambic verse are disyllabic and longer groups of adjacent syllables whose stressing does not correspond to the metrical positions they occupy. In such cases a nonstress ...

Scott proceeds to demonstrate how iambic pentameter is integral to reciting Shakespeare. For those unfamiliar, the rhythm or “meter” uses a particular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

This paper addresses two English verse meters: the iambic tetrameter and a tetrameter form of the strict stress-meter (the dolnik). It studies how the accentual, syllabic, and word-boundary types of ...

Today, that structure survives in blues and bluegrass, rock and roll and hip hop. If iambic pentameter is the meter you’re supposed to learn, the ballad is likely the rhythm you already know.

San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's 'Shakespeare's Heartbeat' program uses the heartbeat rhythm (iambic pentameter) of Shakespeare's words and the physicality of his characters to engage with ...

This emphasis sounds unnatural in comparison to the more conversational iambic rhythm of the other characters in the play. Perhaps Shakespeare is emphasising the other-worldliness of the witches ...

Scott proceeds to demonstrate how iambic pentameter is integral to reciting Shakespeare. For those unfamiliar, the rhythm or “meter” uses a particular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.