We’re not sure who you were or how you did it, but you sure could do it. If you were who you said you were, then you were born sometime near this date in 1564 (or at any rate were christened three days later). And 444 is four times eleventy-one, which has got to be good, no?
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*gasp* But soft, where is thine message, declaring that all comments should be penned in iambs?
Whenever we require iambic posts,
The bloggers flee as if they’d all seen ghosts.
Drat. I began an iambic comment but now I have to go to school.
I’ll return to write some lovely verse.
Haha, I’d like to see what will happen on his 666th birthday! (soo unlucky)
O, the day my district does not have school, and thy belovéd English class, where we are reading the story of stricken Hamlet, too. But ’tis fair day, upon which four hundred and forty-four years past his Most Noble Playwright was born!
(Apologies for lack of iambic-ness, but I will try to post in Shakespearian for today :D)
Wow, the big triple-four. And my mom is complaining about the double-four coming up!
Happiest of birthdays to ye, oh immortal Shakespeare! My humble writings (what there is of them) tremble in awe and fear of thy mighty pen. O! to learn from thee!!
Anyway, have a great one. Much Ado About Nothing is my favorite–I love Beatrice, she’s so funny and modern. And, of course, Benedict is just wonderful as well.
I myself like his word “anhungry”. It’s rather nice.
Ah, Mr. Shakespeare. I simply adore your writing. (That would be your and not thy, because I don’t know him, right?) I hath even performed in a Shakespearean play!
MF – I’m glad that you enjoy that one so much
I love the play of love and naught and such
I’m giving up my poem in this verse
For if I write more it will be far worse
I love Much Ado About Nothing, and Beatrice is definitely my favorite character. The comedies are the best. Not really, but they’re probably my favorites.
I was told today that The Lion King was a Disnified version of Hamlet, and that The Lion King II was a Disnified version of Romeo and Juliet. This troubled me deeply, but I have never seen The Lion King, and therefore am in no position to argue otherwise. However, I do know that no one dies but the uncle, which seems to indicate the contrary, does it not?
And it hath very nearly slipped my mind to wish the good Shakespeare a most pleasant 444th birthday, and to entreat him to take this pie as a gift.
Happy birthday, you wonderful bard,
I prefer your works to Swiss chard.
I think I prefer free verse…my rhymes are deteriorating.
12- *claps* Excellent, excellent!
11 – Hm. Somehow I doubt those claims.
*pies Shakespeare*
Please demonstrate to me how iambics work,
And rescue me from errors I may make.
If the above is done without a shirk,
My road to expertise may less time take.
Ah, ’tis the birthday of the Bard,
I tried to write like him, but ’twas too hard.
So I shall end this awkward post,
And for Shakespeare, I propose a toast!
I’m in the same league as Crraw, am I not?
Happy birthday, O master of the Art of Writing!
I have Elizabethan English problems.
It may indeed be the day after your birthday, but I was performing all of yesterday, so I hope thee understand. And I have been in your play Much Ado About Nothing as Don Pedro, and it is a great play! Have a great 444, Master Shakespeare!
Pentameter is difficult to write,
Especially when iambics are of need.
But in our fervent worship of the Bard,
We bloggers must be willing to oblige.
Such is the fate of Musers true and brave!
It seems I was, up to this point, confused.
I’d been pronouncing “iambs” in a way
Which maketh Shakespeare to revolve within
His ever blesséd grave. One syllable!
How stilted my pentameter seems now!
I’ll make amends. I’ll post a post each week
In format true, pentameter enclosed,
And errors of the past shall mayhap heal.
Don’t kill me, but I don’t know what an iamb is. I think you explained it on the last thread. Could you be so kind as to do it again? *winces*
21- Iambic pentameter=pie PIE, pie PIE, pie PIE, pie PIE, pie PIE! *splat*
I am in less than perfect mood today.
23- Why are you not, in a good mood, today?
The major cause that comes to mind is school.
25-
Ah, but today is Saturday, it is.
How is’t thine education troubleth thee?
24- Hm, that wasn’t very iambic, was it? More like:
“Why are you, not feeling good, today?”
I’m still recovering from awful week.
The week was bad enough, but added on
Was the performance of a grueling play
In which I was the star. I had no time
For relaxation or for homework, which
Caused Monday to be an infernal hell.
Not bad at all. The syllables add up
To ten, just as they should. But in lines three
And six, the meter makes you stress the “the”
And “to” and “an” to form an iamb. That’s
Not something you would do in normal speech.
Still, even Shakespeare tossed in trochees when
He needed to, so who am I to carp?
Now tell us, POSOC, please, about your play.
I’ll tell you, then, but as you said, I may
Be forced to use a measure of trochee.
*slips temporarily into normal speech*
Isn’t it funny how “iamb” is a trochee, and “trochee” is an iamb?
*slips back into iambic meter now*
The play was titled after one that you
May know quite well (a dream at night amid
The time of summer), but it was much changed.
For instance, “Night” did not refer to what
You might expect. Instead, it meant a knight.
Two rival kingdoms in uneasy peace
The setting did provide. A motley crew
Of persons from both realms went out in search
Of wondrous treasure, rumored to be hid
In darkling forest ‘mid one kingdom’s bounds.
(The clue which set them on the trail of gold
Was secret, muttered by a slumbrous knight
Within the throes of dream: and thus, the name.)
The treasure, so long sought, was found to be
A disappointing mess of grain and seed.
(Some scheming birds had hidden it away
To starve the humans off their precious land.)
‘Twas quite amusing, rife with subtle mirth
And humor not so subtle. Who I played
*returns to prose (21 lines of pentameter exhausted my repository of poesy.)*
was the most notorious criminal in the land. Also the only criminal in the land, so he wasn’t that notorious. Thick accent. Always getting his master plan foiled by bumbling sidekick. Parody of every cliche movie villain. Really fun, but as he was the starring role, also really tiring.
(30) Bravo! *applauds*
Well told! I wish I’d seen it. (By the way,
However, “trochee” is a trochee, too.)
I was ‘the goat herders daughter’ in Romeo and Juliet last year. Better than Cole, who was ‘the Wall’.
33- Translation to iambics gratis (free):
“A twelvemonth past I played the daughter of
A goatherd in old Shakespeare’s famous work,
Of Capulets and poisonings. Young Cole
Received a role less glamourous than mine,
That of the Wall. I pity him today.”
I love Shakespeare!
“Let us go cloud hunting. That one looks rather like a weasel. No it looks like a whale. No it is a whale with a weasel’s back”
Hamlet