Thy Challenge:
Cans’t thou work out whether these sentences are in Iambic Pentameter or
not? Remember thy rhythm, remember thy horse, remember thy numbers!
1. Thou crusty wreck upon a dirty shore!
2. Go hence, thou stink’st, thou look’st like a disease!
3. Thou waste of time, and space, and air, and fun.
4. Thou worm-infested gigglewort of a crumpet!
5. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
6. I have no hands and so I cannot clap.
7. I don’t like this film, it’s rubbish.
8. Have you seen my dog? I can’t find him.
9. Oh no, it seems that I have lost my dog.
10. Two households both alike in dignity.
11. In fair Verona where we lay our scene.
12. But soft, what light from yonder window breaks?
13. How am I supposed to know that?
14. Oh no! It seems my leg is now on fire.
15. Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.