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... rhymes are re- quired , sometimes the rhyme is alternate . The most exact Italian nodel runs thus : abba , abba , cde , cde . The subject is introduced in the two quatrains ; it increases in energy and vigour as the poem goes on ...
... rhymes are re- quired , sometimes the rhyme is alternate . The most exact Italian nodel runs thus : abba , abba , cde , cde . The subject is introduced in the two quatrains ; it increases in energy and vigour as the poem goes on ...
Page 126
... rhyme ; that rhyme is helpful because it bounds and circumscribes fancy , and pre- vents it from outrunning judgment . As if to present a living contradiction to all Dryden's condemnation of blank verse as the language of epic and ...
... rhyme ; that rhyme is helpful because it bounds and circumscribes fancy , and pre- vents it from outrunning judgment . As if to present a living contradiction to all Dryden's condemnation of blank verse as the language of epic and ...
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... Rhyme . Passions too fierce to be in fetters bound , And nature flies him like enchanted ground . " Thus , in " All for Love , " 1678 , generally considered his best tragedy , we find him finally abandoning rhyme , and explaining in the ...
... Rhyme . Passions too fierce to be in fetters bound , And nature flies him like enchanted ground . " Thus , in " All for Love , " 1678 , generally considered his best tragedy , we find him finally abandoning rhyme , and explaining in the ...
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