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- Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of…
- 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…
- 'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem…
- 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…
- Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a…
- Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because…
- 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…
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