Our Own Iambic Pentameter Lines

In B period, we created some Shakespearean lines (in A period, we had a fire drill so we should create some lines about that).

Here is one that has the correct number of syllables and stresses:

          I see my love with peasant light tonight.

Here is one that is interesting in how it relates to Romeo and Juliet:

          We wonder how you yield ghost after death.

In this one, there are ten syllables, but the stresses are not all in the right place. Instead it goes US|US|US|SS|US -- because the word "ghost" is stressed and breaks the pattern. However, that is a technique that Shakespeare might have used in order to call attention to the way that Juliet truly dies after she fakes her death.

Here is another with a twist:

          Like night she strikes me in the dark'st manner.

The pattern is US|US|UU|US|SU -- the pattern changes on the words "in the dark'st" and calls attention to the theme of darkness which pervades their love. This could be a kind of foreshadowing of how their love is doomed.

Just for fun, here is my Iambic Pentameter Fire Drill poem:

But zounds! a sound that pricks my tender ear
And file we must outside despite our fear!