This exercise was to write five pairs of blank iambic pentameter in which the first line of each pair is end-stopped and there are no caesuras, followed by five pairs with the same meaning but with enjambment and at least two caesuras.  Should take no more than 45 minutes.

Subjects for the pairs:

1. Precisely what you see and hear outside your window.
2. Precisely what you’d like to eat, right this minute.
3. Precisely what you last remember dreaming about.
4. Precisely what uncompleted chores are niggling at you.
5. Precisely what you hate about your body.

1. Outside the Window
   The sun and shade transform my neighbors’ wall
   and fall like spotlights on my lawn as well.
2. What I’d Like to Eat
   I smell spaghetti cooking on the stove
   and can not think of any better dinner.
3. A Recent Dream
   Last night I dreamed that zombies swarmed around.
   I made my house a fort and hunkered down.
4. Pesky Tasks Overdue
   “Five Hebrew Songs” were not that hard to learn
   Which makes them easier to practice less.
5. My Body
   I pack sufficient weight for two or three
   And also hate my hairy, scaly feet.

1. Outside the Window
   The world’s a stage!  The sun and shade behave
   Like spotlights.  Lawn and wall must take a bow.
2. What I’d Like to Eat
   A promise made, that’s how I view the smell
   Of dinner.  Ah, spaghetti tastes so good!
3. A Recent Dream
   So glad to wake before undead can take
   My fort of dreams.  It was a close escape.
4. Pesky Tasks Overdue
   Fear motivates, it’s true.  I wish I feared
   Whiteacre’s songs, and thus would practice them.
5. My Body
   About myself, it’s feet I hate, not just
   The kind in shoes, but width around my girth.