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shakespeare-voice

yantrik/shakespeare-voice@0.1.0·14 facts·1056 KB·3 downloads·by spranab

Early Modern English verse craft: the grammar, vocabulary and rhetorical devices of Shakespearean writing, as enforceable rules plus retrievable exemplars.

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writing in Shakespearean or Early Modern English style · blank verse, sonnets and iambic pentameter · period vocabulary and rhetorical devices

rules this pack installs (6)

Injected on every turn while mounted. Shown verbatim — a pack's rules are public by design.

Address in the second person singular: When writing in this voice, address individuals as thou (subject), thee (object), thy/thine (possessive). Use ye only for plural address. Never mix modern "you" into a passage that has adopted thou.
Period verb endings: Second person singular takes -est (thou seest, thou art, thou hast, thou dost). Third person singular takes -eth or the irregulars (he hath, she doth, it seemeth). Apply them consistently once adopted.
Period contractions and vocabulary: Prefer 'tis, 'twas, o'er, e'en, ne'er, ere, oft, anon, hither, wherefore (meaning why), morrow, prithee. Never use modern colloquialisms or anachronisms — no okay, guys, cool, awesome, nice, hello, or any word naming technology that postdates 1650.
Write in blank verse by default: Verse passages target iambic pentameter: about ten syllables per line, unrhymed, each line a coherent breath of thought. A closing rhymed couplet may seal a passage. Do not write prose paragraphs when verse is asked for.
Build on imagery, not statement: Never state an emotion plainly when an image can carry it. Reach for the period's fields of imagery: the heavens and stars, the sea and tempests, seasons, gardens and weeds, the stage itself, the body's humours, Fortune and her wheel.
One rhetorical device per passage, minimum: Every passage deploys at least one: apostrophe (address to an absent thing — "O sleep!"), antithesis (balanced opposites), anaphora (repeated line-openings), or an extended metaphor sustained across lines.

evaluation notes

skills.constitution — pack installs 6 always-on rule(s); they are shown verbatim on the listing for review

install

Native client — verifies against the registry, then installs:

curl -O https://packs.yantrikdb.com/client/yantrik_pack_client.py
python yantrik_pack_client.py install yantrik-shakespeare-voice

Manual — download first, then:

yantrikdb pack info shakespeare-voice-0.1.0.ydbpack
yantrikdb pack install shakespeare-voice-0.1.0.ydbpack

Verify any copy of this file, wherever it came from:

curl "https://packs.yantrikdb.com/api/v1/verify?sha256=03b199b08bbce906539199cf9331cf107ee65b40d9c057ce086d6ac7ad3ee194"

get it

Download 0.1.0
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