5/5. Wicked poem even if it didn't scan perfectly.
When I get the time and if it wouldn't cause any offence, I would love to have a go at putting it into iambic pentameter (10 syllables per line in rough couplets, wot shakezpeer did innit).
Truly deserving of an unban, and with alacrity, at that.
Hey thanks. Im confused tho:
1. Didn't scan? You mean you didn't like its formatting? or you think I typed it out, printed it and then scanned it?
2. I didn't really think about iambic pentameter, of course I know what it is, but: I dont rate Shakespear: He was just the Andrew Lloyd Weber of his time: Making cheap masss production crap entertainment for oi poloi. Just as Gilbert and Sullivan, Andrew LLoyd Weber, and other English "Pop Drama" writers are now considered "National Treasures" in the UK, so is Shapespear: We are told HE IS SO AMAZING AND GOOD AND HIS STUFF IS SO POWERFUL IF YOU DONT LIKE IT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND, we eventually don't question it anymore and judge for ourselves:
Shakespear from a INDEPENDANT review: 1 tempo throughout. Repetetive storylines. Jokey fake language (People in England DID NOT SPEAK LIKE HE WROTE, then or at ANY point in History). Made up histories of factual places, as in he could not be bothered to find out, he just made up.
I could go on, but the short version is: I don't rate Shakespear much above J.K. Rowling, and if you HONESTLY think the "Harry Potter" series has ANY redeeming literary factors, you really need to go read a good book.
I can make recomendations. I am old and boring, but the side effect of this is my library is.....well, I have more books than pennies in the bank tbh. I cannot even use my balcony for boxes of books stacked out there... and out of them all, I would never pick up and RE-read any Shakespear, and ultimately THAT is the measure of good writing: Not can you sucker ppl into watching your play, or buying your book: How often will people COME BACK to it. Harry Potter, NEVER. Shakespear.....Maybe, Othello and a couple of others teach good lesson about how women will never take the easy route to solving misunderstandings....that seems to have held solid for a good few centuries now
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