I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be

[desperance]

Four Five Six lines, picked from the last paragraph of dialogue I wrote:

we are a burden and a cause of fear
if they can see their emperor abroad
but if they know for certain I am here
How can they know when they have never seen
when I've been kept more secret than a god
whose house at least is open to their prayers?

God save us, every one. It seems that when I'm being pompous (formal court speech, this is), I write iambic pentameter. Without thinking about it for a moment. (It was that last one that struck home suddenly.) Can it be that I have seen and read too much of Shakespeare et al...?