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Does Quotes by James Fenton
- Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
- One does not become a guru by accident.
- A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age…
- The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but…
- This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first…
- The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically…
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