A comprehensive interactive guide to prosody and metre in English poetry, using examples drawn from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Iron Maiden’s 1984 adaptation. Covers metrical feet, ballad metre, Coleridge’s variations, secondary stress, accentual-syllabic verse, free verse, and the interplay of metre with other poetic techniques. Includes interactive scansion exercises.
A practical guide to English pronunciation covering individual sounds including L/R, N/NG, and F/V/H distinctions, vowels and consonants, minimal pairs, connected speech, stress, and rhythm, with particular attention to the needs of Japanese learners.
An exploration of how rigidly Shakespeare adheres to iambic pentameter, examining his use of metrical variation, substitution, and the relationship between rhythm and dramatic meaning.
A combined reading and analysis of the Witches’ Chant from Macbeth, focusing on how the trochaic tetrameter and rhyming couplets create an atmosphere of supernatural evil.