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... verse letter to Fergusson is clumsy and often forced - the author obviously had difficulty in fitting his thought to the verse form - and even Fergusson's reply , which is the best Scottish verse epistle before Burns , is too ...
... verse letter to Fergusson is clumsy and often forced - the author obviously had difficulty in fitting his thought to the verse form - and even Fergusson's reply , which is the best Scottish verse epistle before Burns , is too ...
Page 144
... verse , and considering the poem as beginning with the second . ) In the next stanza the verse is lighter and not quite so well adapted to the elaborate Spenserian stanza ( Burns would have done better to use Fergusson's simpler form ) ...
... verse , and considering the poem as beginning with the second . ) In the next stanza the verse is lighter and not quite so well adapted to the elaborate Spenserian stanza ( Burns would have done better to use Fergusson's simpler form ) ...
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... verse form have achieved . Matthew Prior , who also used octosyllabic couplets for narrative poetry , had something of this ease and fluency , but Prior's verse tales have a city swagger about them , a deliberate air of a man about town ...
... verse form have achieved . Matthew Prior , who also used octosyllabic couplets for narrative poetry , had something of this ease and fluency , but Prior's verse tales have a city swagger about them , a deliberate air of a man about town ...
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