(4) "Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
Note:
(a)
(i) Halloween Poem: 'Double, Double, Toil and Trouble.' undated
https://www.panmacmillan.com/blo ... le-toil-and-trouble
("From Macbeth, Act IV, Scene I")
The Italics are part of Shakespeare's Macbeth. The lyrics of witches' incantation is in roman type.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_type
(ii)
(A) About About Pan Macmillan. undated
("Pan Macmillan UK is one of the largest general book publishers in the UK, with imprints including Macmillan, Mantle, Pan, Picador, Boxtree, Sidgwick & Jackson, Bello, Tor, Kingfisher, Macmillan Children’s Books, Two Hoots, Bluebird, Campbell Books, Macmillan New Writing and Macmillan Digital Audio. Pan Macmillan is part of Macmillan Publishers International Limited. * * * Pan Macmillan is part of the Macmillan Group, which operates in over 70 countries worldwide. * * * In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, Macmillan publishes under the Pan Macmillan nam")
(B) Pan Books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Books
("Pan Books began as an independent publisher, established in 1944 by [Englishman] Alan Bott, previously known for his memoirs of his experiences as a flying ace in the First World War. The Pan Books logo, showing the ancient Greek god Pan playing pan-pipes, was designed by Mervyn Peake")
(b)
(i) With modifications, the song was performed by Frog Choir in the 2004 film Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
(ii)
(A) "Double" means twice the amount -- of what, it does not say. Could be ingredients, toil or trouble (see definition mext, which is what all say: effort). Toil can be a noun or a verb -- meaning hardworking or work hard.
(B) trouble (n): "an effort made : PAINS <took the trouble to do it right>"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trouble
(c) Macbeth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth
(prophecy from a trio of witches)
(d) Double, Double, Toil and Trouble: Meaning Then. Shmoop, undated
https://www.shmoop.com/shakespea ... e/meaning-then.html
("usually Shakespeare writes in iambic pentameter, but he switches it up here. The witches' lines are written in something called trochaic tetrameter. * * * A trochee is the opposite of an iamb. It's an accented syllable followed by an unaccented syllable. It sounds like DUM-da. For those of you out there who know your Latin roots, you might know that 'tetra' means 'four.' So 'trochaic tetrameter' is a kind of rhythmic pattern that consist of four trochees per line")
(a) iambic pentameter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iambic_pentameter
(section 1 Meter, section 1.1 Meter)
(b) meter
(noun 1; First Known Use before the 12th century; from Latin metrum, from Greek metron measure, meter): rhythm
(noun 3; First Known Use 1797; French mètre, from Greek metron measure): metric system
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meter
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