1. What is "blank verse"? [We discussed this yesterday, but if you are not sure, check out your poetry unit notes.]
Blank verse is a type of poem, which has a verse of line of ten syllables with five stresses and has no rhyme.
2. Interpret these Shakespearean lines using your Shakespeare Packet: Reading Shakespeare's English:
a. "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?" [R&J]
Wait. I just a light in the window go on.
b. "Thou art more lovely and more temperate." [Sonnets XVIII]
She is lovely and has a lot of patients.
c. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well." [Macbeth]
If it was done on time it would have been good.
d. "Whither are they vanished?" [Macbeth]
Where did they go.
3. How many creative Shakespearean insults can you come up with? Add "thou" or "thine" to the front of the lists picked up on your way in: "Thou+Column A+Column B+Column C!"
Thou yeasty rump-fed clot pole.
Thine peevish horn-mad crutch.
Thou haughty pinch-spotted rudesby.
