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Gratuitous Iambic Pentameter
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Among creators, there's a certain kind Who always have poetic forms in mind. In ev'ry situation — great or small— They can't resist the urge to rhyme at all, And even if they don't use rhymes, you hear Poetic rhythms jangle on the ear. Though often plainer words would suit much better, Gratuitous Iambic Penta-MET-er. Poetic Meter 101 An iamb is a poetic beat containing an unstressed syllable and then a stressed one: ba-DUM (if it goes DUM-ba it's called a trochee). Pentameter, as the "penta" prefix implies, is verse with five beats (tetrameter has four, heptameter has seven, etc.), so iambic pentameter has five iambs per line. This can work out to either ten or eleven syllables—an odd unstressed one at the end, called a "feminine ending," doesn't affect the meter much. In addition, poets often jazz up the rhythm by substituting a trochee, or even a three-syllable beat, for one or more of the iambs. This kind of verse is very common in William Shakespeare, as in for example "Un-EA-sy LIES the HEAD that WEARS a CROWN" (Henry IV, Part 2). This trope can apply to any dialogue written in a rhythmic verse form, though. |
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in Ruled Britannia not only are Marlowe and Shakespeare's plays obviously in Iambic Pentameter, their conversations between each other often are as well. | |
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In an issue of Justice League of America, there's a demon practicing rhyming speech, hoping for an eventual promotion. | |
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In the third season of White Collar, Conspiracy Theorist Mozzie has started knocking on Neal's door in iambic pentameter. | |
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The Super-Buddies are sent to Hell when Booster Gold toys with Dr. Fate's stuff. Blue Beetle catches Etrigan saying something that doesn't rhyme. His only reply is "So sue me". | |
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Underdog speaks in rhyming couplets. Interestingly, his alter-ego Shoeshine Boy does not. | |
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Moonlighting's genre-bending saw a few examples of iambic pentameter, suitably lampshaded. An entire episode consisted of lines in iambic pentameter. For bonus awesome, it was a hilarious parody of The Taming of the Shrew. The scene with David, Maddie, and a hotel security officer all speaking in Seussian rhyming couplets: |
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The Tumblr blog Pop Sonnets translated lyrics to well-known songs into Shakespearean sonnets. Sadly, it apparently went inactive in 2016, but not before releasing a book. | |
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Ozy and Millie once had an iambic penslameter, where they poked fun at each other in iambic pentameter. Then Llewellen showed up and invited them to pie in iambic pentameter, which Ozy declared a coincidence; he always talks like that when baking pie. | |
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Zer0 of Borderlands 2 speaks entirely in haiku, unless he's only saying one or two words. No one else is sure why he does so. During his appearance in Tales from the Borderlands, he carries on an ECHO conversation with Moxxi where he appears to speak normally, but if you just take his side of the conversation, you'll notice it still forms a haiku anyway. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Lost Era novel The Buried Age, there's a scene where Picard and Ariel discuss Shakespeare, and he realises afterwards that she was casually speaking in iambic pentameter, including finishing with a rhyming couplet. | |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition: Solas occasionally slips into iambic pentameter, though it's subtle enough to miss if you aren't looking for it. The Inquisitor gains approval from him if they respond in kind. The descriptions in the Twin Daggers ability tree are written in iambic pentameter, and the main abilities rhyme with their upgrades. For example: |
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The Boob's dialogue in Yellow Submarine is almost exclusively in rhyming couplets. He can even make rhymes from whatever the Beatles say to him, even if it doesn't follow form or iambic pentameter precisely. | |
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In Hoodwinked!, Red comes across Japeth, a singing senile country western mountain goat: | |
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While in Sam's body, the angel Gadreel from Supernatural speaks in Iambic Pentameter after his real identity is revealed. | |
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Final Fantasy XII: The Occuria, the immortals that muck about with history, speak, for the most part, in iambic tetrameter. The rebel of their number speaks in iambic pentameter. This may be a reference to Shakespeare's Macbeth, in which the Witches speak trochaic tetrameter (four feet, alternating stress, starting with a stressed syllable) to help illustrate their otherworldly nature. | |
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In Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, every line Barlowe says between Shanoa losing her memory and the beginning of his boss fight is in iambic pentameter. | |
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In Faery: Legends of Avalon, Bert talks in rhyming poetry — except when he's confessing to having been sent to spy on you, which makes him too nervous to keep the rhyming up. | |
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With Irregular Webcomic! having William Shakespeare as a character, it makes sense that some would appear in-story. But none better than the 419 Scam in iambic pentameter. Behold. | |
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Julien, of Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy speaks like this (in the English version of the game, at least), being a parody of Romeo from Romeo and Juliet. | |
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Child of Light has this for the narration. Justified in that the story is presented as someone reading from a book of fairy tales. | |
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Many of the Bard's loftier plays are written in iambic pentameter, but he lampshades it in As You Like It, where Rosalind amusedly speaks in iambic pentameter with the pretentious Jaques, but immediately lapses into prose upon leaving him and meeting Orlando. | |
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Resident Evil 5 has one character in a flashback who doesn't usually speak this way, but punctuates one of his lines to make it especially blatant: | |
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Found in the "MAD Personal Columns" in an issue of MAD: | |
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When Cortana asked it why it did so in Human Weakness, it simply said it was preference, as after having consumed many poets from different cultures, it grew fond of their gifts. | |
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The entire 1619 segment of Door Monster's "A Bat By Any Other Man" video is spoken in Shakespearean verse. | |
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Maldis, a two-episode villain on Farscape once took the form of a wizard who always spoke in iambic pentameter. | |
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance: Bastian speaks entirely in iambic pentameter (or what the localizers thought was iambic pentameter at least; he repeatedly gets the syllable stress that's central to it wrong, so he basically just speaks in sets of ten syllables). Elincia also uses it for a Rousing Speech. This reoccurs in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn: the prince of Daein, Pelleas, once gives a speech that's mostly in this meter to his troops. Yet Bastian's verse is nowhere to be found. | |
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The Fatima Fates sometimes lapse into iambic pentameter when delivering a prophecy in The Five Star Stories, though this may only be in the English version. What's strange is that Clotho's prophecy in Volume II has the rhyming couplet at the beginning rather than the end. This is probably a deliberate artistic choice to highly the nonlinear nature of time in the FSS universe. | |
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In Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest the dialog is pretty much entirely in iambic pentameter, mostly unrhymed. | |
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In Spyro: Year of the Dragon everyone in the Spooky Swamp levels speak in Haiku. This even includes characters who aren't native to the level such as Sheila and Moneybags (who complains about having to speak in haiku... In haiku). | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey keeps doing this unintentionally in Busman's Honeymoon. The other characters lampshade it. | |
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Less well-known is Avery Brooks' line readings from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (Brooks was also familiar with The Bard from his theater days.) As the series wore on, Captain Sisko's language became looser and more impassioned, but in the beginning he spoke entirely in sleepy Shatnerese. | |
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Halo series: The Flood intelligence Gravemind (usually) speaks in rhyming couplets of trochaic heptameter (seven being Bungie's Arc Number), increasing its already impressive hamminess. For example, referring to Master Chief and the Arbiter, respectively: When Cortana asked it why it did so in Human Weakness, it simply said it was preference, as after having consumed many poets from different cultures, it grew fond of their gifts. |
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Gunnerkrigg Court has a subtle but very powerful use at the painfully emotional climax of chapter 30: | |
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Inside No. 9: “Zanzibar” is an homage to Shakespeare’s comedies, so all of the dialogue is in in iambic pentameter. | |
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In the Hungarian translation of The Flintstones, everybody speaks in rhymes for some reason. | |
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The Lord of the Rings features Tom Bombadil, an enigmatic figure who often breaks into verse and actually made the ring itself turn invisible. | |
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In the Fables spinoff Jack of Fables, Lady Luck speaks in Iambic Pentameter. | |
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Wordsworth in Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats doesn't take the name of a poet for nothing. | |
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In the 2000 Dune miniseries, the Baron Harkonnen was fond of speaking in rhyming couplets. | |
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In Street Fighter V, almost all of Zeku's win quotes are presented in haiku. Capcom dropped this with the Season 4 characters, for whom he gives more normal win quotes (the only one that is even close is the one he gives to E. Honda, but the metric doesn't fit). Also, the win quotes against Blanka and Cody are missing the third verse for some reason. | |
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In De Cape et de Crocs, Maupertuis and the Master-at-Arms especially like to practice the art of "Rixme" (a portmanteau between the french words "rixe" and "rime", respectively "fight" and "rhyme"), which is fencing while taunting the opponent in Alexandrines. Justified, since they are fencers, poets and gentlemen, and in the Master-at-arms case, Cyrano de Bergerac. | |
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Dragon Quest XI: The inhabitants of the town of Hotto all speak in haiku. | |
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The elven hero Findan from Heroes of Might and Magic V speaks in various kinds of poetic metre. Many of his lines are haiku. | |
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Taking this in a new and strange direction, the demon Etrigan in The DCU speaks in rhyme. This is taken by one of the Endless as a sign he has been promoted in the demonic ranks. And when Alan Moore writes him, he actually does speak iambic pentameter. One incarnation of him accidentally forgot to rhyme in haste, meaning that it's a conscious effort on his part rather than automatically how speech comes to him. Played with in the miniseries Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, when it turns out that not only do many demons speak in rhyme, anything not in rhyme is incomprehensible to them. Thus, the human/demon interpreter job is left to Humpty Dumpty, who speaks fluent Poetic. In Shadowpact, it is revealed that rhyming demons are considered as part of the underworld's upper class and one has to earn the privilege to become one. However, it must be a lower rank than being (a) Lord of Hell, as Neron was furious to be promoted to rhyming demon. Yes, a lowering of rank is called being promoted. They're demons. The lower they are, the more powerful and evil they are. Yes, it's stupid. But they discuss it at length when Blue Devil gets his demotion and starts rhyming. In an issue of Justice League of America, there's a demon practicing rhyming speech, hoping for an eventual promotion. The Super-Buddies are sent to Hell when Booster Gold toys with Dr. Fate's stuff. Blue Beetle catches Etrigan saying something that doesn't rhyme. His only reply is "So sue me". Garth Ennis's Hitman (1993) also plays with this, with a lower ranking demon named Baytor who, due to his inability to rise in Hell's ranks, can only say, "I am Baytor!" |
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Because even Elizabethan prose had a habit of falling into the cadence of iambic pentameter, it's not always clear whether Shakespeare meant certain passages to follow that meter or not. For example, critics and printers have disagreed sharply about whether crucial scenes in King Lear were verse or prose. | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: One of the reasons Captain James Kirk's dialogue sounds so stilted or fake is that William Shatner insisted on using varying iambic and trochaic rhythms, presumably due to his Shakespearean training. It was even parodied on Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Less well-known is Avery Brooks' line readings from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (Brooks was also familiar with The Bard from his theater days.) As the series wore on, Captain Sisko's language became looser and more impassioned, but in the beginning he spoke entirely in sleepy Shatnerese. |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: GRRM's writing style is heavily iambic, and iambic pentameter occurs frequently enough that it's unlikely to be coincidental. A few of the more quotable examples: | |
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A not-quite-famous example in cinema would be Rudy Ray Moore's alter-ego Dolemite. | |
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The West Wing: One episode had the president and staff wondering about the mental capacity of one of the Justices of the Supreme Court after he issued comments in Iambic Tetrameter, identified positively by the writing staff. Ainsley Hayes apparently does this as a nervous tic, such as in this exchange from "And It's Surely to Their Credit": |
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One of the languages you can view the fancomic Darths & Droids in is "poetry". | |
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Questionable Content: Marten gets hired by the university library on the spot when he notices that the application form is written in iambic pentameter. | |
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An entire episode consisted of lines in iambic pentameter. For bonus awesome, it was a hilarious parody of The Taming of the Shrew. | |
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Game of Thrones: Although probably unintentional, in "The Mountain and the Viper" Daenerys Targaryen banishes someone with a rhyming couplet. The play The Bloody Hand is performed entirely in rhyming meter. |
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From Herc's book onwards / Amatsu-Mikaboshi, the Chaos King, speaks in Haiku / for added coolness. | |
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Played straight in the Epic Rap Battles of History episode "Dr Seuss vs Shakespeare", as it is done by the Bard (well, George Watsky) himself, in the first several lines: | |
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When Kyle introduces Brows Held High's Shakespeare month, he does the entire introductory video in iambic pentameter. Concluding with a fervent (almost frightened) affirmation that he is not going to be doing the whole month like that. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Everything Zecora says is in rhyme. She does it each and every time. When she gets sick in "A Health Of Information", she starts struggling to rhyme properly. After getting a Haiku cutie mark in "Marks And Recreation", Kettle Corn often, although not at all times, speaks in Haiku. |
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Doctor Who: "The Crusades", which features a guest cast made up of the big Shakespearean actors of the day, has much of their dialogue written in iambic pentameter (usually in scenes where none of the TARDIS crew are present). Probably accidental, but "Colony in Space" gives us a threat delivered in a dactylic rhyming couplet: Much of Davros's Motive Rant at the Doctor in "Genesis of the Daleks" is written this way, probably to draw attention to the Shakespearean elements of Davros's character: |
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In the Asterix comic, Asterix and Cleopatra, an Egyptian named Edifis makes a journey to Gaul to seek the help of Getafix the Druid. Edifis speaks in what sounds like a stilted verse-form. The druid explains to a bemused Asterix and Obelix what it is, and makes a pun: "C'est un alexandrin", ie "He's from Alexandria". note An "alexandrin" is a verse-form in classical French literature and occupies the same place in French Lit as the iambic pentameter does in English. English translations render Edifis's speech into iambic pentameter to carry over something of the pun. | |
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Vangers featured Eleepods - a race of fat and lazy worms obsessed with poetry. Their manner of speech also resembles blank verse, but this was Lost in Translation. | |
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Nearly every piece of dialogue from the Middle Ages chapter in the remake of Live A Live is written in iambic pentameter, which gives the whole chapter the feel of a play by Shakespeare. Which is a horrific form of Foreshadowing if you know what kind of plays Shakespeare was most known for. | |
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Honest Trailers starts off William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet with a regular In a World… narration, but then decides this trope is the only way to do that movie justice. | |
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In The Exploits of Ebenezum by Craig Shaw Gardner, we are almost immediately introduced to a Big Bad rhyming demon named Guxx Unfufadoo. He can speak without rhyming, but as his power (defined very generically) grows with every rhyme, he almost never fails to rhyme. In the succeeding trilogy he joins the party in an Enemy Mine scenario, with a Malfunction Malady where sneezing fits prevent him from rhyming... so he only speaks in blank verse with a specific beat pattern (and hopes he doesn't reflexively end a verse in a rhyme and start sneezing). | |
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xkcd has a strip featuring actual iambic pentameter. | |
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Forsooth!: The game gives a guide for some Elizabethan phrases; though it doesn't advocate actually improvising in meter, some very motivated players try. | |
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An issue of Excalibur (Marvel Comics) told from the point of view of Lockheed features him flying around spouting bad rhyme. Which is interesting, as it's been suggested on more than one occasion that, being an alien life-form, his vocal apparatus just can't cope with English. | |
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In Empowered, the Caged Demonwolf combines this with Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness and Purple Prose (also, thesaurus abuse) for some truly remarkable dialogue. | |
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In The Fires of Affliction, the leader of the Mystery Cult speaks entirely in iambic pentameter up until The Reveal. Incidentally, the book was written by one of the editors of the English script for Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, which also features this trope. | |
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Planet of Hats uses pentameter exclusively for its spoof of the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Conscience of the King", which is about a Shakespearian actor. | |
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In Shadowpact, it is revealed that rhyming demons are considered as part of the underworld's upper class and one has to earn the privilege to become one. However, it must be a lower rank than being (a) Lord of Hell, as Neron was furious to be promoted to rhyming demon. Yes, a lowering of rank is called being promoted. They're demons. The lower they are, the more powerful and evil they are. Yes, it's stupid. But they discuss it at length when Blue Devil gets his demotion and starts rhyming. | |
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A really gratuitous example from the trailer for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: "You FOOL! How COULD you LET them GET aWAY!?" | |
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Strong Sad goes on a 'lyric rampage' using Iambic Pentameter in the Strong Bad Email "Rampage". For such a professed lover of poetry, he's really bad at it, forcing trochees into iambs and tacking on an awkward fifth one when he runs out of ideas. He's immediately laughed off the stage by Strong Bad and Coach Z. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing features gratuitous haiku, limerick, and anapestic tetrameter. | |
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The final chapter of Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat suddenly lets loose with: But the river—chill and weary, with the ceaseless rain-drops falling on its brown and sluggish waters, with a sound as of a woman, weeping low in some dark chamber; while the woods, all dark and silent, shrouded in their mists of vapour, stand like ghosts upon the margin; silent ghosts with eyes reproachful, like the ghosts of evil actions, like the ghosts of friends neglected—is a spirit-haunted water through the land of vain regrets. It is not the book’s only Hiawatha parody, but it is the sneakiest.note If you must split hairs, this is not iambic pentameter. It is trochaic tetrameter. | |
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At one point in The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan, Nova trolls Twilight with it, even to the point where she accidentally lapses into it herself. | |
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There is a very amusing scene in Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), where the main character, having been sucked into Othello, realizes that she is now effortlessly speaking in iambic pentameter. | |
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Played with in the miniseries Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, when it turns out that not only do many demons speak in rhyme, anything not in rhyme is incomprehensible to them. Thus, the human/demon interpreter job is left to Humpty Dumpty, who speaks fluent Poetic. | |
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