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VERSE AND PROSE. What is prose, and how is it different to poetry? The short answer is that prose is the form of writing that I’m using now, and the form we most commonly use in speech with each other. Prose is the term for any sustained wodge of text that doesn’t have a consistent rhythm.
Verse lines are uneven and exhibit a rhythmic pattern, often iambic pentameter, while prose lines resemble standard paragraphs. Typically, noble characters speak in...
21 paź 2019 · What is prose? How does it differ from verse? The difference between them is central to appreciating Shakespeare's writing, but understanding prose vs. verse is not as difficult as you might think.
When we talk about prose in Shakespeare, we are referring to all the lines of a play that do not conform to a specific poetic structure. The easiest way to identify prose on the page is that prose sections appear as full blocks of text, while verse is broken into lines, which all start with capital letters.
While most of the memorable passages from the plays are in verse, many memorable scenes are in prose, or a mixture of the two: prose is one of the many ways in which Shakespeare keeps the rhythmic counterpoint* of his language alive.
This may be explained by the fact that Shakespeare almost without exception puts prose rather than verse into the mouths of the insane, and Lady Macbeth's somnambulism is meant by him to be regarded as a symptom of her mental disorder.
Shakespeare wrote the majority of his work in VERSE, predominately in iambic pentameter. But he also used a lot of PROSE, namely sentences that don’t follow any structured rhythm. He tends to have characters of lower social standing speaking in prose, reserving his verse for more formal characters.
