William Shakespeare (who was baptized on 26 April 1564 and died in 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and a prominent dramatist. Shakespeare's standard poetic form was blank verse, composed in iambic pentameter. In practice, this meant that his verse was usually unrhymed and consisted of ten syllables to a line, spoken with a stress on every second syllable. …show more content…
On the other hand, Portia keenly detects stress from Brutus’s actions, and she confronts him and tries to make him tell her what’s wrong, he says he won’t and she replies “Then I shall kneel, but I should not do if thou were gentle Brutus”, pointing out she clearly knows something is wrong with her husband, and went to the extreme of damaging herself in the thigh to make him open to her, and was almost successful but was interrupted by Caius Ligarius, who was the latest member to join the conspiracy, and that, in a certain way, was the start Brutus’s …show more content…
Call it my fear that keeps you in the house and not your own”, to which Caesar grudgingly accepts but not before pointing out it’s because of her whim, and not because he is scared of omens or