My scene script translation and script work

SPARKNOTES ACT 2 - Scene 2 - Page 7



Some of my lines i have to translate so that i understand them a bit better:









IAMBIC PENTAMETER


Here is some work I did on figuring out the iambic pentameter of a speech:

BOLD = Stressed syllable.
Some lines do not fit into the Iambic Pentameter. I think this means that Shakespeare wanted this line to stand out more and maybe it meant something a lot more important. 

Now might I do it pat. Now he is a-praying.  (the "he is" part could be blended to make 1 syllable or you could make it not fit in Iambic) 
And now I’ll do ’t. And so he goes to heaven. ("heaven" is 1 syllable)
And so am I revenged.—That would be scanned.
A villain kills my father, and, for that,
I, his sole son, do this same villain send  (this line and the small line below do not fit into Iambic. 
To heaven.                                                  Shakespeare wants more meaning in this line)
Oh, this is hire and salary, not revenge.  ("Salary" is 2 syllables instead of one. It is a triplet.)
He took my father grossly, full of bread,
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May.
And how his audit stands who knows save heaven? ("heaven' is 1 syllable)
But in our circumstance and course of thought
'Tis heavy with him. And am I then revenged  (This line also doesn't fit Iambic. There is a correlation)
To take him in the purging of his soul
When he is fit and seasoned for his passage? ("Passage" is 1 syallable)
No. (This one word is put in deliberately. To make the actor and the character think.)
Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent.
When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
Or in th' incestuous pleasure of his bed, ("th' incestous" could be said as 2 syllables)
At game a-swearing, or about some act
That has no relish of salvation in ’t—
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven, ("heaven" is one syllable)
And that his soul may be as damned and black
As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays
This physic but prolongs thy sickly days.




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