Strong Meter and Strong Rhyme: Excerpt from The Raven by E.A. Poe Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of someone gently rapping, rapping at [...]
Prose: Selection from Skaldskaparmal in the Prose Edda But Skadi, daughter of giant Thiassi, took helmet and mail-coat and all weapons of war and went to Asgard to avenge her father. But the Aesir offered her atonement and compensation, the first item of which was that she was to choose [...]
Complex Thought with Complex Meter: Selection from Hamlet by W. Shakespeare O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working [...]