Andy Serkis gives a powerful 20 stanza monologue poem as Kino Loy in Star Wars: Andor.
This monologue poem is interesting because of how the feel of the piece, and the way it reads, dictates the rhyme scheme. This made the monologue difficult to break down.
In this monologue poem Kino Loy is inspiring his fellow prisoners to fight for their freedom.
This monologue poem is made up of 20 unbounded Broken ballad quatrains that are written in a,x,a,x rhyme scheme. Each stanza is broken up into a tercet (3 lines) followed by a monostitch (single line). The monostitch line either concludes the current thought like a period at the end of a sentence OR it introduces the next thought. This makes all of the thoughts of the poem feel interconnected.
If I were to perform this monologue, I would focus on telling the story as if it were set to music. I might also give a short pause/or non-verbal gesture before the monostitch line in each stanza to emphasize the brokenness of the ballad quatrain.
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James Ivan 