impenetrable. They aren’t, of course. With a little bit of effort and patience,
the modern reader/spectator can get a great deal of pleasure from words
written four centuries ago - proof both of Shakespeare’s genius and of the
genius of the English language itself.
couplet
couplet the answer or a comment.
(rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde)
comment.
syllable foot, with the stress on the second syllable. “Pentameter” means
there are five of these feet to a line. So, to take his most famous line:
To be or not to be, that is the question
them as if they were written in accentual verse:
To be or not to be, that is the question
being... all the rest.)