As You Like It by Abigail Rokison-Woodall

As You Like It by Abigail Rokison-Woodall

Author:Abigail Rokison-Woodall [ROKISON-WOODALL, ABIGAIL]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350120440
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2021-04-02T00:00:00+00:00


PHOEBE

If sight and shape be true,

Why then, my love adieu.

(5.4.18–19)

Having identified lines of dimeter (two metrical feet) and trimeter (three metrical feet) in the play, we now move to tetrameter, a line of four metrical feet. Tetrameter is the metre used by Orlando for his love poetry written to Rosalind, and, in a neat parallel, by Phoebe when writing her love letter to Ganymede. The metre is mostly catalectic trochaic tetrameter – a series of four trochees, with the final unstressed syllable missing in most lines (/u /u /u /), with some lines of iambic tetrameter. We hear two of Orlando’s poems in 3.2 – the first read by Rosalind and the second by Celia; both are intentionally bad and over-written:



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