Dictated to a secretary using a noiseless portable black Remington typewriter constructed so the keyboard was less distracting to the master-orator one exhibited in the first glass case of the show Churchill's speeches were prepared for delivery in verseform.
An impressive feature of the exhibition is its theater-pod, where visitors are immersed in the sound of Churchill's voice, which accompanies the verse-form text as it appeared in his copy and documentary photographs on screens to the left and right.
The most common metrical form is the iambic fifteen-syllable verse in a rhyming couplet, although a poet may use eight-syllable, six-syllable or even nine-syllable verses.