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...?

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[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

Yesterday hot_climate called a paragraph of my dissertation pompous .

Just because one sentence was five lines long!

So I hit him with my sceptre.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*laughs*!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Now, see, why am I not at all surprised to hear that you have a sceptre...?

Also, he clearly deserved it. Hath he not read Henry James? Five lines is a bagatelle.