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391 Mark Twain's Publishing Fiasco | Great Literary Terms and Devices Part 2 (with Mike Palindrome)

The History of Literature

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Iambic Pentameter

blank verse is a kind of nice variation on iambic pentameter. It avoids the tyranny and the sing songness of rhyme, it gives us that cadence. You're still in a familiar world where there is some control that the poet is exerting but it's not they're not locked into having end rhymes. Iu think it's a singular experience reading the the catalogue of bad films in that footnote an infinite just it does,. so that's a good one for your first pick of the day, your number six and number 11 over all stream of consciousness.

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