julius caesar - prose & verse
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Well here they are:
Which characters speak in prose and which speak in verse, in the play Julius Caesar? what could be the reason that some characters speak in prose and others in verse? how could I tell if a part is written in blank verse,iambic meter, or pentameter? I have a hard time figuring out which syllables are stressed and which aren't. Please give examples.
thanking you in advance,
Roxy
Comparison-Brutus and Antony
Those to can be compared a lot during the whole play.
Note...Everything is in iambic pentameter in the play. That's the way Shakespeare writes.
In the two famous soliloquys, Brutus speaks in prose while Antony speaks in blank verse. Brutus's funeral oration is well-balanced, straight-forward, and very logical. Antony, however uses very passionate words, calls the plebs friends. He uses power of rhetoric with Irony and also Rhetorical questions.