Music IN poetry ú - Smithsonian Learning Lab

The exercises take poetry off the page and put it into terms of movement, physical space, and, fi nally, music. 1. B Background allad A woefull hunting once there did 4 In Chevy Chase befall. 3 Th e iamb is the workhorse of metrical feet, the one that best replicates conversational speech. All of the verse dialogue in Shakespeare is in iambic pentameter, lines of fi ve iambs, in which there ... ................
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