The Hamlet Project

Followed by eight beats of walking perhaps?
At least, this version of the text suggests it might be so.
It’s not the MOST compelling pause in a metric universe.
One might be inclined to tack these two syllables on to the previous line
Or the subsequent,
To cheat, as it were,
With the verse.
Or even – and this is my preferred one:
But come. Here as before,
Never, so help you mercy. . .
Which leaves us four beats of silence
Then three, rather than eight all at once.
In eight beats, I want the world to shift, for emotions to erupt
For silence to be the only choice – that or wailing –
With four and three
We can just take a breath.
Run a few steps.