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Junior: Using Iambic Pentameter

Your assignment is to write a poem describing a someone from contemporary society. Refer to the "General Prologue" to The Canterbury Tales as your model. The character should be someone who does a particular job or serves some specific purpose in our society.

Your poem should be at least 14 lines, in rhyming couplets. Please include the following:
  1. description of the person's job/position
  2. character traits -- personality, temperament, morals, etc.
  3. physical description -- including uniform/clothing
Remember that almost any line from Shakespeare is in iambic pentameter:






Bring a TYPED rough draft on Friday 9/27.
The final draft is due on Monday 9/28.

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