Prosody of the Pendulum

Prosody ~ the patterns of rhythm and sound used in poetry.

In the story of The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe there is still the apparent use of repetition that creates a nervousness, a maniacal madness if you will, from the narrator. You can hear the panic in the voice. You can envision the life and death situation, the begging and pleading. There is also a not so obvious anger and resentment of the torturous nature  and the inevitable death with the looming pendulum; an implied begging for death and resolution in the whole matter.

The other thing I wanted to mention in all this is the tempo of the sentence structure. There is an intentional use of long winded sentences that reiterate the situation. The building of panic, and resentment, the animosity of being killed but in such an inhuman manor. With it being part of Spanish inquisition (The Monks/Black robed judges) you can hear the Godless tone, and almost feel the clinched tooth nature of the narrator. The extremely long sentences though stand out as a rant and a plea; a defiance of having nothing to loose in saying what he has to say.

The same holds true in the tale of The Black Cat. The opening paragraph has long drawn out sentences of guilt and denial. However in the next couple paragraphs when simply speaking of his life and everyday subjects there is a calming before returning to the winded sentences of denial and guilt. Most of the paragraphs start off with short concise sentences, but as he eludes to the disease  of alcohol, he takes on a more defensive  and longer sentence to portray some form of innocents in the matter; "having nothing to prove."

In the tale of, Berenice the paragraphs start off in short sentences, but there is a pattern of drawn out sentences when the closing is made. When it is said that the narrator and Berenice were cousins and grew up in the same house together the sentences get even longer and drawn out.The following has to be the longest sentence ever to be published, "Among the numerous train of maladies, superinduced by that fatal and primary one which effected a revolution of so horrible a kind in the moral and physical being of my cousin, may be mentioned as the most distressing and obstinate in its nature, a species of epilepsy not unfrequently terminating in trance itself — trance very nearly resembling positive dissolution, and from which her manner of recovery was, in most instances, startlingly abrupt." This would be a close tie or maybe longer, "In the meantime my own disease — for I have been told that I should call it by no other appelation — my own disease, then, grew rapidly upon me, and, aggravated in its symptoms by the immoderate use of opium, assumed finally a monomaniac character of a novel and extraordinary form — hourly and momentarily gaining vigor — and at length obtaining over me the most singular and incomprehensible ascendancy."

Just something to make note of. I hope this was helpful and inspiring.

Okay, upon further review I started watching the original,  "The Wizard of Gore." from 1970 and for now I have enough to say about it. So, I will have a reverse discussion on what not to do and why.

Toklotox Forluna Tansikna Wun Yoleeblah Morlee & Morlee Itox Ithno Yoleeblah Inx Youloth Crunum Wonnay. With that said, "Sleep with one eye open and have a 'Horrific' day." B)