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Lines Quotes by James Fenton
- Those who actually set out to see the fall of a city or those who choose to go to a front line, are obviously asking…
- For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The…
- At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This is the length…
- At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.
- I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.
- Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself…
- 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…
- In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd…
- 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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- The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves. — Michael Badnarik
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- Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. — Alec Baldwin
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