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... rhymes which force him often to say what those rhymes dictate rather than what was in his mind to say when he sat down to write . They prove that , great as was his power over verse , he was never a master of rhyme , that he seldom ...
... rhymes which force him often to say what those rhymes dictate rather than what was in his mind to say when he sat down to write . They prove that , great as was his power over verse , he was never a master of rhyme , that he seldom ...
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... rhyme to prevent a too regularly recurrent chiming of words . In the following instance , the accents fall on the words that should rhyme with each other , but the rhyme " Man's " and " glance " is not a perfect rhyme : The day when he ...
... rhyme to prevent a too regularly recurrent chiming of words . In the following instance , the accents fall on the words that should rhyme with each other , but the rhyme " Man's " and " glance " is not a perfect rhyme : The day when he ...
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... Rhyme ( 1873 ) to his Collected Poems ( 1897 ) Austin Dobson had a prominent place among the read and quoted poets of his tongue . His books , prettily bound and prettily illustrated , were in thousands of homes . They were proper ...
... Rhyme ( 1873 ) to his Collected Poems ( 1897 ) Austin Dobson had a prominent place among the read and quoted poets of his tongue . His books , prettily bound and prettily illustrated , were in thousands of homes . They were proper ...
Contents
WHAT IS POETRY? | 3 |
POETRY THE FIRST OF OUR ARTS | 24 |
THE DEBT TO WORDSWORTH | 39 |
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