If an audience has expectations for a work, it allows artists to break them in unexpected ways. Knowing the forms, and conforming to them, is just the start though. Thou art more lovely and more temper ate:Įach line is five pairs of syllables, with the emphasis on the second syllable, and while rap has sixteen bars to a verse (typically), sonnets have fourteen. Take the first lines of one of Shakespeare’s most famous sonnets: A sonnet is kind of like a rap track: it’s always the same length and the same basic rhythm and the poet fits their verses into this preexisting structure. Most of Shakespeare’s works are in iambic pentameter, and the sonnet, which spans most European poetry, follows this form. The most famous meter for formal poetry in English is iambic pentameter, which puts emphasis on the second syllable with five pairs of syllables per line. But, both use the English language, especially meter, in fascinating ways to add depth to their plays and their music. Cardi B is a rapper from the Bronx who you probably know for topping the Billboard Top 100. You probably know him from reading Romeo and Juliet in ninth grade language arts. Shakespeare was a English playwright who lived from 1564 to 1616 (He may not be the author of the works of Shakespeare but we’re not going to get into that). If you do, let me know because we should talk. You probably don’t often hear Shakespeare and Cardi B come up in the same sentence.
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