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Scansion of Hamlet's soliloquysSoliloquy 1:
O | that | this | too | too | so | lid | flesh | would | melt, |
Thaw,| and | resolve | it | self | in | to | a | Dew; |
Or | that | the | Ever | las | ting | had | not | fix'd |
His | can|non | a | gainst | self | Slaught | er; | O | God | God |
How | weary, | stale, | flat, | and | un | pro | fi | ta | ble |
Seem | to | me | all | the | U | ses | of | this | World? |
Fie | on't,| ah | fie,| 'tis | an | un | weed | ed | Gar | den |
that | grows | to | Seed: | things | rank | and | gross | in | Na |ture |
Pos | sess | it | mere | ly | that | it | should | come | thus |
But | two | months | dead, | nay | not | so | much, | not | two; |
So | ex |cel | lent | a | King,| that | was | to | this |
Hy | pe |rion | to | a | Sa | tyr, | so | lov | ing | to | my | Mo |ther |
That | he | might | not | be | teem | the | Winds | of | Hea | ven |
Vi | sit | her | Face | too | rough | ly. | Hea | ven | and |Earth, |
Must | I | re | mem | ber, | why | she | should | hang | on | him |
As | if | in | crease | of | Ap | pe | tite | had | grown |
By | what | it | fed | on,| and | yet | wi |thin | a | Month--|
Let | me | not | think | on't | (Frail | ty,| thy | name | is | Wo | man |)--
A | lit | tle | Month | or | ere | those | Shoes | were | old |
With | which | she | fol | lowed | my | poor | Fa | ther's | Bo | dy |
Like | Niobe | all | Tears,| why | she-- |
O | God,| a | Beast | that | wants | Dis | course | of | Rea | son |
Would | have | mourned | lon | ger-- |mar | ried | with | my | Un |cle,|
My | Fa | ther's| Bro | ther, | but | no | more | like | my | Fa |ther |
Than | I | to | Her | cu | les.| Wi | thin | a | Month,|
Ere | yet | the | Salt | of | most | un | right | eous | Tears |
Had | left | the | Flush | ing | in | her | galled | Eyes,|
She | mar | ried,| O | most | Wi |cked | Speed;| to | post |
With | such | Dex | ter | ity | to | in | ces | tuous | Sheets,|
It | is | not, | nor | it | can | not | come | to,| Good. |
But | break | my | Heart, | for | I | must | hold | my | Ton | gue. |
OEDIPUS REX SOPHOCLES TR STORR
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OEDIPUS
My | child | ren, | lat | est | born | to | Cad | mus | old, |
Why | sit | ye | here | as | sup | pliants, | in | your | hands |
Branch | es | of | o | live | fil | let...