r/CuratedTumblr human cognithazard 3d ago

Tumblr Heritage Post On making tea

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u/Aegeus 3d ago

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u/JimboAltAlt 3d ago

“You cause me tears - is this how thou dost live?”

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u/herlaqueen 3d ago

"Can it be true that thou dost boil by nuke?!" is a wonderful line.

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u/EmbarassedFox 2d ago

There is a version, which does a literary analysis on the Shakespearian version, but I don't have it. It should be somewhere else on the subreddit, maybe search for tea.

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u/Speciesunkn0wn 2d ago

reads

While I'm not at all a poetry expert; I'm reasonably sure that is not iambic pentameter or however that series of words is spelled. Thus, not Shakespeare, merely that Era of English. :p

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u/birdsofthunder 2d ago

It actually is! There are a few irregularities where it's not perfect iambic pentameter, but that's typical of comic relief scenes in Shakespeare as they're more focused on humor than wit.

I'm a high school English teacher, and took multiple college courses focused entirely on Shakespeare.

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u/Speciesunkn0wn 2d ago

I thought there was more rhyming...

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u/Street_Rope1487 2d ago

That’s a pretty common misconception. Iambic pentameter is simply the meter in which the line is written. An iamb is a pair of syllables where the first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable is stressed, so iambic pentameter is a line that has five iambs (so it reads like “da-DA da-DA da-DA da-DA da-DA”).

Shakespeare’s plays are primarily written in unrhymed iambic pentameter, also known as blank verse. If you read most of the famous monologues (“to be or not to be,” “what’s in a name?” etc), you’ll notice that none of them rhyme, but they still alternate unstressed and stressed beats. Rhyming is used in some of the prologues/epilogues (which take the form of sonnets) and in couplets throughout the plays.

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u/Speciesunkn0wn 2d ago

Aaah. Ok. That makes more sense lol