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Twenty Ten…

Approaching six thousand readers. Thank you for reading. OK maybe three thousand are me, but that still leaves 3,000. Why that’s the capacity crowd of the Globe Theater. The old one then.

It is a commonplace of blogs to mourn the lack of readership. But then why do it? It is because you read […]

January 5th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Sonnet theory | Leave a comment

Reading the Sonnets…

…Ok finally a place where the sonnets are together in text and sound. Many thanks got to my techies: Peter Mitchell who designed the code, and Tim Egmond who recorded the sound.

We are up and running NOW HERE!

There’s also a link under Ahem! Hear William, which will remain when this post is buried […]

July 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Performances of YLuvSh? | Leave a comment

The Iambic Pentameter System…

A line of a sonnet appears as a measured unit 10 syllables long, alternating unstressed stressed syllables.

This inner measure or metre, allows us to hear the line’s inner relationship.

Our ear follows the pattern that is created, or deviated from, through a succession of lines.

Four lines is known as a quatrain, […]

February 13th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Sonnet theory | Leave a comment