Welcome, scansion fans! This week marks the first episode in a series I'm calling VERSIFIED where I take a prose speech and turn it into iambic pentameter verse, in order to show how similar it is to our everyday English speaking patterns.

The monologue being featured today is one from Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4 Episode 12 "The Wounded." It's a really moving speech spoken by Chief Miles O'Brien, and I thought it'd be a great candidate for versifying!

Comment down below with anything you liked or something you would have done differently! Personally, looking back on it now that I've already edited and uploaded everything, I would have just elongated "It's" to "it is" in the second to last line and had a normal line of verse instead of having a weird headless line lol.

TIME STAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:20 What is Iambic Pentameter?
02:01 Techniques for Versifying (Compression, Expansion, Trochees, Long Lines, Short Lines)
04:40 About the actor: Colm Meaney
06:02 Context of the speech: TNG S4 E12 "The Wounded"
07:29 The speech
09:01 Versifying!
20:32 Erik Schiller performing O'Brien's speech from "The Wounded"

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4 Episode 12 "The Wounded"
Copyrighted by Paramount Domestic Television
Directed by Chip Chalmers
Story by Stuart Charno, Sara Charno, Cy Chermak
Teleplay by Jeri Taylor
Featured music by Dennis McCarthy
Cinematography by Marvin Rush
Colm Meaney as Chief Miles O'Brien
Timothy G. "Time" Winters as Glinn Daro