When you listen to a Shakespeare play most of the time you’re not really aware that you’re listening to poetry. Non-rhyming verse written iambic pentameter is called, blank verse. Iambic pentameter has been used for many poetic forms as well as sonnets.įor example, pretty much all of Shakespeare’s plays are written in iambic pentameter (as are his sonnets, of course). The poem, being a Sonnet, uses a meter known as iambic pentameter. In other words don’t emphasize the rhythm and meter, but just allow them to emerge naturally from the wording. Try reading this poem aloud, just as if it’s prose rather than poetry, which is how modern readers tend to read formal poetry. I shall but love thee better after death. Smiles, tears, of all my life and, if God choose, In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee freely, as men strive for right
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight I love thee to the depth and breadth and height How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. This is a sonnet that you might recognize––or at least you might recognize the first couple of lines:
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