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Speak in iambic pentameter shakespeare frequently used iambic pentameter to write dialogue for the more important characters in his plays to speak in iambic pentameter use ten syllable lines broken up into five foots in a foot the first syllable is not stressed and the second is stressed. Workshop verse speaking exercises choose a lengthy speech by any character in a shakespeare play and read it aloud whilst walking around physically change direction every time you reach a comma colon or full stop this will force you to see that each clause in a sentence suggests a new thought or idea for your character. Shakespeare was writing in a different time and in a different english though there are similarities to how we speak now there are important differences sonnet 130 is a great example