i literally have an a**/9 in english language and lit and could never get my head round iambic pentameter. now i understand completely. thank you SO much.
I know how you feel. I always got As in english and poetry etc but never understood this concept. I always just had a bunch of people looking at me like I was dumb and clapping at me till they gave up on teaching me.
I swear, there are so many great teacher, but so many awful teachers who are spoiling the subject for their students. When I did engineering, my professor sucked at explaining Smith Chart but I watch a UA-cam video and I had the same comment! UA-cam University is awesome. I just wish they’d stop with the censorship of “offensive” comments that are meant to challenge views and let growth occur.
Same, I went through GCSE and A-level only writing about Iambic Pentameter if it was something I was told that the poem has. I never even considered it for Unseen Poetry
'De dum' is also like an immitation of a heartbeat. And the iambic rhythm often breaks when someone in a play tragically dies or gets killed. When the life (the heartbeat) stops.
A heartbeat is a single pulse followed by a pause, not “de dum.”Not every line of Shakespeare followed that pattern. Mostly it’s not a heartbeat but a-fib. Check it out.
I wish my English professors had explained it this way, it would’ve saved so much time and frustration. Now the frustration ends, you made it seem so simple! Thank you!
Very informative and easy to understand. Thank you. Too add, I'm a 76 year old man who is totally uneducated so I found this extremely helpful. We are never too old to learn.
I believe part of it is because Shakespeare wrote/spoke in Early Modern English as opposed to our modern English. He also lived during the mid-end of the great vowel shift which basically just caused some things to rhyme differently. They also commonly used words that have fallen out of popular usage etc
How did a generation understand the likes of Motley Crue or what the word Google meant. Shakespeare wrote deeply rich and compelling literature laced with word play and flowing metaphors and imagery which actually changed the English language. P.S. Google just got lucky! :)
That's great to hear and thank you fore letting me know. I have just uploaded a second video on Iambic Pentameter. Here's the link if you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/HpQeV_ip0G8/v-deo.html
Thanks for this! Currently studying about writing song lyrics and our professor is teaching about iambic pentameters. But he didn't explain it at all, and it doesnt help that english is my second language so these terms are new to me. You explained so nicely! Thank you very much!
Thank you so much for this video..Very good explanation for Iambic pentameter. I am about to teach Shakespeare next week .While browsing for an answer to explain this, I found your video...🤗👍
Dr. Goeff Lindsay also has a great video going over this to the rythm of Pink Panther. I didn't know that was what Iambic Pentameter meant and this video also goes into more analytical depth. Thanks for the help!
Thank you! I'm currently studying a degree on English studies and this kind of things are difficult to understand if you are not a native speaker. Gonna share this with my peers!
I'm very pleased to hear that. Thank you for letting me know. I have just produced another video looking at one of the main variations used in iambic pentameter. Just click in this link if you are interested. ua-cam.com/video/HpQeV_ip0G8/v-deo.html
How do you know that a foot is stressed as an Iamb or a trochee ? Is it about how it feels when you read it, that it would sound off to read the iamb like a trochee ?
Hadrien Nostrenoff that’s a good question. It is about the relative amount of emphasis you place on a syllable. With combinations like ‘a love’ or ‘to be’ you can hear there is more emphasis on the second word. It would sound odd to over-emphasise the first word. With a trochee it sounds natural to stress the first syllable more than the second. With the words ‘Now is’ you can hear that it sounds more natural to stress the word ‘Now’ more than the word ‘is’. It takes a bit of practice but eventually it will become clearer and clearer. Hope that’s helpful.
There is no real 'opposite', but we could - theoretically - think of prose as the 'opposite' of iambic pentameter because it doesn't have the clear structure of five iambs per line. Quite a lot of Hamlet is written in prose, for example. When Shakespeare uses prose it can indicate several things: it might be a character of a lower class speaking; or it might be a character speaking more spontaneously; or it might indicate moments when a character is experiencing deep emotions that he/she is struggling to deal with or to articulate. Hope that's useful.
@@giantsparkplug3462 Good question. Where greater stress is placed on the first syllable and less on the second syllable the metrical foot is called a Trochee (pronounced Troe-Key). Trochees normally appear at the beginning of an iambic pentameter line and add a degree of rhythmical variation: In the play Richard III, for example, the very first line is "Now is the winter of our discontent. As you say the first two words (the first metrical foot) you can hear that you would place more stress on the word "Now" than the word "is" - so that is a trochee and might be described as DUM-de. Hope that helps. Do send me another message if you have other questions about this.
*ANGER AND LOVE* In passion tempest, love and anger clash Their dance, a wild tango of fire and Ice Two forces warning, yet entwined they lash A paradox that leaves the heart unsliced Anger, a tempest with it's thunderous rush It's lighting strikes igniting wounded pride Yet deep within it's flames a longing year A desperate plea for love not to subside And love, the gentle rain that soothes the burn His tender touch, a balm for wounded souls Forgiveness blooms when anger flames Adjorn A fragile bridge across tumultuous shoals So let them coexist,the fierce extreme For love,in Anger's crucible reedems this is an example I made up😊
Thank you for this video. I finally understand William Shatner. He thinks in iambic pentameter. Decades of stage acting skewed his subconscious, which in turn caused his Shatner Pause in almost every role. Does he 'pause' when he sings to himself in the shower?
I write short stories for my own amusement. First, I whack out a draft of what I think the story should be. Then I forget that it even exists. I come back after about a week or so and read it over. If I decide that I have myself a story, then I rewrite most of the lines. I notice that when I makes changes to the lines because I don't like the sound, I usually follow the iambic part, but not the pentameter part
There’s relation between Shakespeare’s actual poetry and “iambic pentameter,” a false borrowing from classical Greek and Latin verse forms. English verse is stress-counted. There are five (or four or three) stresses to a line and that’s it. Try scanning lines of Shakespeare as “iambic pentameter” and you will have all kinds of problems. “Whether ’tis” nobler in the mind to suffer . . . . The first word is stressed on the first syllable not the second. There follows a string of stressed and unstressed syllables that do not fit any “iambic pentameter” pattern.
Good question. Pentameter because there are five feet in the line. There is also dimeter (two feet in the line), trimeter (three feet), tetrameter (four feet), hexameter (six feet) and heptameter (seven feet) amongst others.
Sorry but I don’t quite understand the de-Dum part and also I can’t figure out which part I need to analyse to find the iambic pentameter. I’m so lost and my corse work is in soon help me please...!!!!!!!
Thanks for your question. An iamb consists of two syllables and the DE-DUM pattern describes the fact that there is more relative stress on the second of these two syllables in a standard iamb. So, for example, take the word ATTACK. As you say it you can hear there is less stress placed on the A and more on TTACK. It is similar with the word AGO or AGAINST. Now compare a word you used in your question the word - FIGURE. You can hear that there is more stress on FIG than on URE. Likewise the word BOATING - there's more stress on BOAT and less on ING. I hope that helps explain the pattern but do send me a note if you would like more examples.
It's a good question. In this period they admired writers who constructed lines for poetic effect. It is only later that people began to react against this and experiment with different forms.
Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. I have just uploaded a second video on Iambic Pentameter. Here's the link if you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/HpQeV_ip0G8/v-deo.html
@@DrAidan lol I'm not trying to be as crass but yeah it did sound like you emphasized the first syllable of the foot. No harm no foul, my students still got it
i literally have an a**/9 in english language and lit and could never get my head round iambic pentameter. now i understand completely. thank you SO much.
That’s my pleasure. I’m very pleased that you have found it so helpful and thank you for letting me know.
I know how you feel. I always got As in english and poetry etc but never understood this concept. I always just had a bunch of people looking at me like I was dumb and clapping at me till they gave up on teaching me.
I swear, there are so many great teacher, but so many awful teachers who are spoiling the subject for their students. When I did engineering, my professor sucked at explaining Smith Chart but I watch a UA-cam video and I had the same comment! UA-cam University is awesome. I just wish they’d stop with the censorship of “offensive” comments that are meant to challenge views and let growth occur.
Same, I went through GCSE and A-level only writing about Iambic Pentameter if it was something I was told that the poem has. I never even considered it for Unseen Poetry
'De dum' is also like an immitation of a heartbeat. And the iambic rhythm often breaks when someone in a play tragically dies or gets killed. When the life (the heartbeat) stops.
Oh! Lovely to know
A heartbeat is a single pulse followed by a pause, not “de dum.”Not every line of Shakespeare followed that pattern. Mostly it’s not a heartbeat but a-fib. Check it out.
I wish my English professors had explained it this way, it would’ve saved so much time and frustration. Now the frustration ends, you made it seem so simple! Thank you!
Thank you. I’m so pleased that the video was helpful and thanks also for taking the time to let me know.
Very informative and easy to understand. Thank you. Too add, I'm a 76 year old man who is totally uneducated so I found this extremely helpful. We are never too old to learn.
@@johnsinclair3994 that’s great to hear. I’m very pleased that you found it useful and thank you for letting me know.
You've just made iambic pentameter so clear to understand in less than 3 minutes!
How did the common people understand Shakespeare in his time when we find it so incredibly difficult.
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i refuse to believe they did
I believe part of it is because Shakespeare wrote/spoke in Early Modern English as opposed to our modern English. He also lived during the mid-end of the great vowel shift which basically just caused some things to rhyme differently. They also commonly used words that have fallen out of popular usage etc
How did a generation understand the likes of Motley Crue or what the word Google meant. Shakespeare wrote deeply rich and compelling literature laced with word play and flowing metaphors and imagery which actually changed the English language. P.S. Google just got lucky! :)
It was acted 😅 reading a dry text in an archaic dialect is much harder than seeing the actors on stage live interact with each other
my teacher put this on the powerpoint for our work and it probably the most helpful vid ever
That's great to hear and thank you fore letting me know. I have just uploaded a second video on Iambic Pentameter. Here's the link if you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/HpQeV_ip0G8/v-deo.html
Unfortunately I still don’t get it 💔
Yeah me too ima fail :(
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Thanks for this! Currently studying about writing song lyrics and our professor is teaching about iambic pentameters. But he didn't explain it at all, and it doesnt help that english is my second language so these terms are new to me. You explained so nicely! Thank you very much!
Thank you. I'm very pleased that you found it useful.
These videos are so basic, good & helpful. GREAT!
Thanks, I'm an immigrant and the way we separate syllables is completely different. This helped me a lot!
Very glad to hear that!
Thank you so much for this video..Very good explanation for Iambic pentameter.
I am about to teach Shakespeare next week .While browsing for an answer to explain this, I found your video...🤗👍
Thank you for your kind words and I’m very pleased that you found it helpful.
You’ve made this way more clearer than my teacher and a google search has.
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@@DrAidan Oh yeah no problem, keep up the good work!
You defined very clearly... i listened from many person before this but couldn't understand.. i properly understood today.
@@waytosuccessHP I’m very pleased to hear that and thank you for taking the time to let me know.
This is the best explantion I've come across
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Thank you soooo much! I finally understand it! ❤
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Please can you help me to understand the class ..I didn't get it yet. Thank you
Thanks a lot! Finally understood this! May the triple gem bless u!
Thank you: I'm glad it helped you.
This guy is good! More videos needed ASAP. Could you perchance demonstrate how to analyse and understand poetic techniques?
Thank you. Good idea. I will put poetic techniques on the list of videos I will write in the coming months.
Super helpful for my CHAMPIONS! We're starting our unit with this MASTERPIECE!😁😁😉😛
Dr. Goeff Lindsay also has a great video going over this to the rythm of Pink Panther. I didn't know that was what Iambic Pentameter meant and this video also goes into more analytical depth. Thanks for the help!
Thank you! I was struggling with the explanation given in my Open uni access module. This cleared things up.
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I had to write a poem using this for a project, and the book explained it horribly. Thanks for the video, this really helped!
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This is for a homework; and this helps so much thank you
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thank you and this helps a lot with my English literature course!
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Thank you! I'm currently studying a degree on English studies and this kind of things are difficult to understand if you are not a native speaker. Gonna share this with my peers!
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Makes so much sense now! Thank you so much!
Very glad to hear that.
THIS MADE IT SO MUCH EASIER
I'm very pleased to hear that. Thank you for letting me know. I have just produced another video looking at one of the main variations used in iambic pentameter. Just click in this link if you are interested. ua-cam.com/video/HpQeV_ip0G8/v-deo.html
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Learned it once, forgot it all. Thank you.
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I didn't understand it at university, but your explanation clarifies everything I need to know. Thanks a billion. 🥰
This was very helpful.
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GREAT VIDEO THANKS DOC!!!
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Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for.
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you're a good guy Elliot
That’s very kind of you to say; thank you.
At first I thought I’d never understand this. I was wrong! Thanks for this clarification
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Thank you so much you have explained in such a way that i understand.
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This was a very easy to follow vid thank you
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So simple! Thanks.
@@foodiegal9923 thank you for watching and I’m pleased you found it helpful.
How do you know that a foot is stressed as an Iamb or a trochee ? Is it about how it feels when you read it, that it would sound off to read the iamb like a trochee ?
Hadrien Nostrenoff that’s a good question. It is about the relative amount of emphasis you place on a syllable. With combinations like ‘a love’ or ‘to be’ you can hear there is more emphasis on the second word. It would sound odd to over-emphasise the first word. With a trochee it sounds natural to stress the first syllable more than the second. With the words ‘Now is’ you can hear that it sounds more natural to stress the word ‘Now’ more than the word ‘is’. It takes a bit of practice but eventually it will become clearer and clearer. Hope that’s helpful.
Thank you, so the natural emphasis of the word does play a part. I wasn't sure :)
Y did u kill him
Sooo simple! Thanks!😊
This makes so much sense thank you
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Thank you so much!
@@peggyhofmann9187 I’m pleased to hear that you found it useful. Thanks for watching.
are we supposed to force some stress on the final "Brook" ? it feels like that is an unstressed syllable unless its a question?
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Umm...one question! What is the opposite of iambic pentameter?
There is no real 'opposite', but we could - theoretically - think of prose as the 'opposite' of iambic pentameter because it doesn't have the clear structure of five iambs per line. Quite a lot of Hamlet is written in prose, for example. When Shakespeare uses prose it can indicate several things: it might be a character of a lower class speaking; or it might be a character speaking more spontaneously; or it might indicate moments when a character is experiencing deep emotions that he/she is struggling to deal with or to articulate. Hope that's useful.
@@DrAidan If an iamb is de-DUM, what is DE-dum?
@@giantsparkplug3462 Good question. Where greater stress is placed on the first syllable and less on the second syllable the metrical foot is called a Trochee (pronounced Troe-Key). Trochees normally appear at the beginning of an iambic pentameter line and add a degree of rhythmical variation: In the play Richard III, for example, the very first line is "Now is the winter of our discontent. As you say the first two words (the first metrical foot) you can hear that you would place more stress on the word "Now" than the word "is" - so that is a trochee and might be described as DUM-de. Hope that helps. Do send me another message if you have other questions about this.
*ANGER AND LOVE*
In passion tempest, love and anger clash
Their dance, a wild tango of fire and Ice
Two forces warning, yet entwined they lash
A paradox that leaves the heart unsliced
Anger, a tempest with it's thunderous rush
It's lighting strikes igniting wounded pride
Yet deep within it's flames a longing year
A desperate plea for love not to subside
And love, the gentle rain that soothes the burn
His tender touch, a balm for wounded souls
Forgiveness blooms when anger flames Adjorn
A fragile bridge across tumultuous shoals
So let them coexist,the fierce extreme
For love,in Anger's crucible reedems this is an example I made up😊
Wow absolutely life changing stuff
Thank you so much. That's brilliant
You're very welcome. Glad you liked it.
Woke up at 1 am and this word appears in my head for no reason, I don’t know what it means. Now I’m here
Great video! Which storyboard software did you use to create it?
Thank you - this video was made using VideoScribe.
Thank you so much for this!
No problem at all, I'm glad to hear it was helpful!
Brilliant explanation
Great explanation thank u brother man
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very well presented.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
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Wow!! Thanks for that.
@@shsanj1973 thank you. I’m pleased it was useful.
Thank you for this video. I finally understand William Shatner. He thinks in iambic pentameter. Decades of stage acting skewed his subconscious, which in turn caused his Shatner Pause in almost every role. Does he 'pause' when he sings to himself in the shower?
Being a budding poet, l needed to learn this, thank you 🎭🤟
Happy to help!
Tom hopefully you go places, would love to hear your work 🤘🎭
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@@DrAidan I've written several now, including tetrameter, common meter and several other styles, thank you again 🎭
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Thank you Lillian - I'm very glad to hear you found it useful.
This is so helpful! Thank you!
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Best explanation
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Excellent
@@frank327 thank you. I’m pleased that you enjoyed it and thanks for letting me know.
I write short stories for my own amusement.
First, I whack out a draft of what I think the story should be.
Then I forget that it even exists.
I come back after about a week or so and read it over. If I decide that I have myself a story, then I rewrite most of the lines.
I notice that when I makes changes to the lines because I don't like the sound, I usually follow the iambic part, but not the pentameter part
Amazing clads
Thank you!
@@lukas.strautins my pleasure. Glad you found it useful. And thank you for watching.
Thanks a lot this really helped me !!!!
Thank you: I'm very pleased you liked it.
But you did not address WHY we need to use the iambic pentameter
mans just summoned the entire my-English-teacher-doesn't-teach-us gang with this video. thanks lol.
Oh hey I’m not alone!
Many thanks! ♥
Thank you! I have just uploaded a second video on Iambic Pentameter. Here's the link if you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/HpQeV_ip0G8/v-deo.html
There’s relation between Shakespeare’s actual poetry and “iambic pentameter,” a false borrowing from classical Greek and Latin verse forms. English verse is stress-counted. There are five (or four or three) stresses to a line and that’s it. Try scanning lines of Shakespeare as “iambic pentameter” and you will have all kinds of problems. “Whether ’tis” nobler in the mind to suffer . . . . The first word is stressed on the first syllable not the second. There follows a string of stressed and unstressed syllables that do not fit any “iambic pentameter” pattern.
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Her eyes are pearls above her rosy face.( Is this iambic pentameter?)
@@mayankrai9726 yes, that is iambic pentameter - slightly more stress would naturally be placed on syllables 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10.
Why "pentameter"? Is there a Septameter? Quadameter?
Good question. Pentameter because there are five feet in the line. There is also dimeter (two feet in the line), trimeter (three feet), tetrameter (four feet), hexameter (six feet) and heptameter (seven feet) amongst others.
Sorry but I don’t quite understand the de-Dum part and also I can’t figure out which part I need to analyse to find the iambic pentameter. I’m so lost and my corse work is in soon help me please...!!!!!!!
Thanks for your question. An iamb consists of two syllables and the DE-DUM pattern describes the fact that there is more relative stress on the second of these two syllables in a standard iamb. So, for example, take the word ATTACK. As you say it you can hear there is less stress placed on the A and more on TTACK. It is similar with the word AGO or AGAINST. Now compare a word you used in your question the word - FIGURE. You can hear that there is more stress on FIG than on URE. Likewise the word BOATING - there's more stress on BOAT and less on ING. I hope that helps explain the pattern but do send me a note if you would like more examples.
What ever happened to verses from a deep flow of consciousness ?
It's a good question. In this period they admired writers who constructed lines for poetic effect. It is only later that people began to react against this and experiment with different forms.
does it mean your example is not in iambic pentameter?
thank you
Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. I have just uploaded a second video on Iambic Pentameter. Here's the link if you are interested: ua-cam.com/video/HpQeV_ip0G8/v-deo.html
Sir. Did it seem to me like you read that line incorrectly? You stressed the wrong syllsbles.
Must be very difficult to be constrained in this way, by such rules while writing.
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Holy Smokes.. I know nothing about this stuff. Never realized how complicated
Thanks for the vid
No problem. Glad you liked it.
Saying the line again, correctly, at the end (after saying it incorrectly) would be nice.
Thank you for the suggestion.
@@DrAidan lol I'm not trying to be as crass but yeah it did sound like you emphasized the first syllable of the foot. No harm no foul, my students still got it
Thanks for mentioning this and thanks also for recommending the video to your students.
Well now I got a rabbit hole to go down.
this is the best
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helped with my homework
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Thank you.
Yo who’s watching this from school rn
Class..thanks a lot
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My exam is tomorrow
. wish me good luck 🙏
Good luck! I hope the exam goes very well.
@@DrAidan thanks 😍
Deadwood is the best example of this
why aren't replies not all in iambic? Why aren't. replies. not all. in i- . ambic?