. >> stephen: is it easy for you to do the iambic pentameter?cause that's how all you people talk? >> what is that? oh, we're talking about shakespeare. >> stephen: the da-da-da-da -- >> it's like a big safety net, actually, in truth. once you get into that rhythm it's kind of like -- it gives you the groove. >> stephen: did you grow up talking like that over in england. >> i did! >> stephen: mama i'd like some soup today. (laughter) >> please may i have some serial my mom. mom, please -- >> , that went on too long. >> stephen: you ended with a choky. >> i ended with a choky. i can't belief you got that before me! >> stephen: i just made that up. (laughter) i have to ask you at least one ho *bt question. i sorry. (cheers and applause) just one. now you're legolas, obviously, the son of thranduil in merkwood. now i noticed in the trailer-- that's all i know-- that you might have something something going on we advantage line lily and it seems like you might have a relationship going on. >> but we're talking elf things so it's very profound and un

that's an iambic pentameter. but it's flat. it just shows you that -- and i think he had an affinity for iambic and perhaps even iambic pentameter. but that doesn't mean that it always raises the level. the poetic level. in this case, this is a flat line. this, we may, in all propriety do. nobody would ever choose that. over it is all together fitting and proper. even though fitting and proper is a cliche in a way, it's a familiar phrase. somehow, if you can use a familiar phrase in the right place, it works very well. it's interesting that lincoln in all the versions we have in his hand always says, "we cannot dedicate." two words. "we cannot." the newspapers always put that together. so the newspaper versions always say cannot. but if you say them both and you try them, you see there is a difference. especially in a speech like this. we can not dedicate. also, seeing the value of a change, originally he wrote, "the world will little note nor long remember what we say here while it can never forget what they did here." but the

that's an iambic pentameter. but it's flat. it just shows you that -- and i think he had an affinity for iambic and perhaps even iambic pentameter. but that doesn't mean that it always raises the level. the poetic level. in this case, this is a flat line. this, we may, in all propriety do. nobody would ever choose that. over it is all together fitting and proper. even though fitting and proper is a cliche in a way, it's a familiar phrase. somehow, if you can use a familiar phrase in the right place, it works very well. it's interesting that lincoln in all the versions we have in his hand always says, "we cannot dedicate." two words. "we cannot." the newspapers always put that together. so the newspaper versions always say cannot. but if you say them both and you try them, you see there is a difference. especially in a speech like this. we can not dedicate. also, seeing the value of a change, originally he wrote, "the world will little note nor long remember what we say here while it can never forget what they did here." but the