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guccigenshin t1_jbdn93h wrote

are you reading it out loud by any chance? my experience w/ iambic is only shakespeare and afaik the dramatic effect of iambic doesn't come through until an actor/reader delivers it appropriately. when i was taught shakespeare, the goal wasn't to read it to yourself but to feel how it sounds when it's spoken aloud, and the dramatic (or comical) effect it creates when the rhythm (or lack of, as he often omitted on purpose) punctuates a moment

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Intelligent_Head_214 OP t1_jbdw7v0 wrote

I was reading Lost Paradise to my wife out loud and she was saying it made sense but while I was reading it I felt like I was messing up. Milton hated rhyming so his version is no rhyme and apparently lines can flow into the next line and the next line and the next so I wasn’t sure if I was reading it aloud properly

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