Iamb

Then awe and reverence and pale fear took hold of Metanera, and she rose up from her couch before Demeter and bade her be seated.

But Demeter, bringer of seasons and giver of perfect gifts, would not sit upon the bright couch, but stayed silent with lovely eyes cast down until careful Iambi placed a jointed seat for her and threw over it a silvery fleece.

Then she sat down and held her veil in her hands before her face.

A long time she sat upon the stool without speaking because of her sorrow, and greeted no one by word or by sign, but rested, never smiling, and tasting neither food nor drink, because she pined with longing for her deep-bosomed daughter, until a careful Iambi, who pleased her moods in after-time also.

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"It is the east, and Juliet hark-"

Iambic pentameter's not everybody's thing.

I know.

Nor is reading.

was just how that was.

Iambic pantameter.

Wasn't bad.

Yeah.

Absolutely incredible.

And like, Having seen, like, con stuff of Jared being like, I've researched this, and he speaks as Gadriel in the iambic... iambic? Iambic? Iambic? Iambic pentameter? It's a literary device.

Okay.

And

oh Paul

but I never learnt Iambic pentameter so they're not good poems

I'm sure they're lovely And real.

I'm

Though sometimes written in prose, their natural medium was the iambic measure, invented by Archilochus, and they were meant both for a male and female audience.

Iambus the jester, Pierrot, and his female counterpart in Iambi, Pierrette, who appears in the Homeric hymn to Demeter, and by her capers forces the sad goddess to smile once more.

This is perhaps the one justification of the tales.

In their more innocent form, they were intended to purge away that feeling of melancholy, of which, as the precursor of madness, the Greeks were so much afraid, by exciting the emotion of laughter, just as tragedy effects the same purpose by exciting the emotions of pity and fear.

But this sort of humor in Athens and Ionia soon degenerated into coarseness, and Iambi, her name now changed to Baubo, as we see her in the ritual statuette, a woman sitting on a pig, played a prominent and shameful part in the Eleusinian mysteries of Demeter.

The worship of the sorrowing mother, Mater Dolorosa, was made the cloak for nameless obscenities, and the influence of religion was added to that of literature to degrade men's conception of women.

These are the sort of verses and images to which Aristotle alludes in the seventh book of the Politics, and this is one of the reasons for Plato's objection to poetry.