TWELFTH NIGHT LANGUAGE, FORM & STRUCTURE

FORM

• Blank Verse: Iambic Pentameter

• Smooth pentameter (courtly, mannered blank verse) - Shakespeare mocking.

Act 1 Scene 1 - Orsino ‘If music be the food of love play on..’

• Broken pentameter (staccato - excess of emotion/confusion and chaos)

Act 3 Scene 1 - Olivia ‘Yet come again, for tho perhaps mayst move..’

• Antilabe pentameter (sharing…