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Examples for Shakespearean verse

 * Trochaic pentameter:
 * Macduff: "O horror, horror, horror!
 * Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee" (Mac 2.3.62-3)


 * Lady Anne: "Be it lawful that I invocate thy ghost" (R3 1.2.8)


 * Elision:
 * Macbeth: O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" (Mac 3.2.37)