The British actor, Richard Dormer, who’s known for his role as Beric in the HBO series “Game Of Thrones”, Does an interesting monologue poem as Agent Prescod in the Marvel miniseries “Secret Invasion”. Agent Prescod uses this monologue poem to explain his conspiracy theory about how the Skrulls are trying to take over the world.
This monologue poem has a very subtle, barely noticeable front-rhymed rhyme scheme that makes the poem feel more prosaic than poetic.
Its 9 front-rhymed quatrain stanzas in X,A,X,A X,B,X,B… etc rhyme scheme. There are declarative, imperative, and interrogative sentences all throughout.
If I were to perform this monologue poem, I would speak each of the 36 lines as its own imperative, declarative or interrogative sentence. I also would NOT give any emphasis to the subtle rhyme pattern as I feel the writer wanted this poem to sound like prose.
Check out my versification of this awesome monologue poem below and let me know what you think about it.
AGENT PRESCOD
Imagine a world
where information
can’t be trusted. Not
very hard, is it?
News service
says one thing,
website
says another.
Society starts to fray. All
we can turn to
are the people
we care about.
But, what if those
people
weren’t who
we thought they were?
What if
the ones
closest to us,
the ones we’ve trusted our whole lives
were someone else entirely? What if
they weren’t
even human?
Chaos. And that’s only the beginning.
Five global terrorist strikes within
the past year.
Each one claimed by
a different group.
That’s precisely what they want
you to think. Not People.
Skrulls. Look can’t
you see it,
All these groups they’re the same. Skrulls
can
be
anybody, anywhere, at anytime.
James Ivan 