Episode 12: Some Paradise Lost, some Pope, some more on meter, prime numbers
Oct 17, 2022•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 176
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Episode description
More on iambic pentameter. Examples from Milton and Pope. A bit on sonnets. Why poetry tends to flirt with prime numbers -- five feet per line, seven pairs of rhymes in sonnets, etc. Examples from Shakespeare.
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