Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
\nIs thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
\nThere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the smallest orb which thou behold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122st
\nBut in his motion like an angel sings,
\nStill quiring to the young-eyed cherubins.
\nSuch harmony is in immortal souls;
\nBut, whilst this muddy vesture of decay
\nDoth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.<\/i>
\n<\/p>\n
\n
\nIn celebration of this fateful birth,
\nHerein the GAPAs will communicate
\nIn lines ten syllables in length apiece
\n(Or thereabouts). You’ve heard of it before:
\nIambic (yes) pentameter–i.e.,
\nFive two-beat feet, one stressed, one un<\/i>stressed. All
\nMuseBloggers may, of course, write that way too.
\nIt’s easy once you get the hang of it
\n(Well, not exactly easy<\/i>, but still fun.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not the smallest orb which thou behold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it … Continue reading “Happy 445th Birthday, William Shakespeare!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe","category-things-we-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2082,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}