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Today I want to focus on a 16 line monologue poem, brilliantly spoken by the character, Yoda in the Star Wars movie “Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back”.
In this monologue poem, Yoda preaches a short sermon to Luke Skywalker in which he explains the power of the force.
This poem has a back and forth oscillation between lines that have internal rhymes and lines that have NO rhymes at all. This oscillation adds extra color and to the poem like when jazz musicians jump on and off the beat to add extra color to their melodies. As I always tell you, the more you internalize the rhyme, the more intelligent and intellectual the character will sound.
If I were to perform this monologue poem, I would speak the rhymed lines with more vehemence and greater tonality than the unrhymed lines. I would speak like I’m preaching in a pulpit. I would speak like I’m trying to save Luke Skywalker’s soul from eternal damnation in the fires of hell.
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James Ivan 