[ Iambic Pentameter ]

Continuing on with a theme around rhythms and structure to our life, work, music: it’s true that predictability and structure actually allows freedom and innovation (hello, jazz). 

Back in 2014, I remember going with my parents to the Stratford Festival in Stratford, Ontario.  It features mostly Shakespearean plays. I’m not a Shakespeare aficionado, but I love a challenge.  We had a marathon attendance of five Shakespearean plays over 3 days, all of them stellar productions.

Afterwards, for a while, I ended up thinking in iambic pentameter. Weird, but true.  The lilting, rhythmic predictability of poetic language was hard to ignore.