5/20/2023 0 Comments Dr seuss books green eggs and ham![]() Took a common phrase – ham and eggs – reversed it and made the eggs ![]() ![]() He pointed out that in Green Eggs and Ham Ted The animator Chuck Jones (who helped create Bugs Bunny) said that the unexpected is always the most interesting thing to human beings. If you read the following lines from Green Eggs and Ham aloud and listen as you read them, you’ll see that, in each foot or iamb or pair of syllables, one syllable is stressed (in bold) while the other is not: In iambic tetrameter each line has four ( tetra) feet, or eight syllables in total. An iamb is a unit of poetry consisting of two syllables. This is the name for the simple meter - or rhythm - Ted used when he was writing. ![]() All the words he used are single-syllable words except anywhere (8 times).įor the technically-minded, Green Eggs and Ham is written in iambic tetrameter. There are charts, lists and number counts which record the words he used most often: not (82 times) and I (81 times). Among Ted Geisel’s papers are worksheets which show just how gruelling the process really was. They’re some of the simplest words in the English language but this gorgeously-nonsensical story was not easy to write. ![]()
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