Episode 12: Some Paradise Lost, some Pope, some more on meter, prime numbers

Published: Oct. 17, 2022, 5:13 p.m.

More on iambic pentameter.\xa0 Examples from Milton and Pope.\xa0 A bit on sonnets.\xa0 Why poetry tends to flirt with prime numbers -- five feet per line, seven pairs of rhymes in sonnets, etc.\xa0 Examples from Shakespeare.