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Page 144
... stanza and culminates in the long , slow last line . Burns is clearly reaching out to something more elaborate than the simpler ( but effective ) verse of Fergusson , and if he could have kept the whole poem in the key of this stanza ...
... stanza and culminates in the long , slow last line . Burns is clearly reaching out to something more elaborate than the simpler ( but effective ) verse of Fergusson , and if he could have kept the whole poem in the key of this stanza ...
Page 162
... stanza , as it were , and the transitions are unforced and effective . Burns generally uses the last four lines of this complicated stanza - four lines which stand somewhat apart from the main body of the verse - to introduce a link ...
... stanza , as it were , and the transitions are unforced and effective . Burns generally uses the last four lines of this complicated stanza - four lines which stand somewhat apart from the main body of the verse - to introduce a link ...
Page 164
... stanza that love ' brightens the tenebrific scene ' we are not in the least surprised . There is a partial recovery in the final verse , but the poem never really gets back into its stride after the seventh stanza . The first seven stanzas ...
... stanza that love ' brightens the tenebrific scene ' we are not in the least surprised . There is a partial recovery in the final verse , but the poem never really gets back into its stride after the seventh stanza . The first seven stanzas ...
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