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Poets and songwriters utilize aspects of language that are essential for prose writers to know. Take the slow, repeated vowels and consonants Joyce uses in \u201cThe Dead\u201d: \u201c\u2026his soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe\u2026\u201d or the hasty sibilance alive in Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet: \u201cOh wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!\u201d Sound and rhythm help create sense and emotion, and by paying close and purposeful attention to the words we use\u2014the beginnings of them, the interior sounds of them, the rhythm of them\u2014we can evoke and ignite those senses and those emotions. In this Eleventh Hour you\u2019ll hear (and practice) how techniques used in the sung and the spoken can help us create magic on the page.