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Page 171
... rhyming of "attained" with "strained" is perhaps a little forced, with its unconversational pronunciation, but the very fact that these words are the rhyme words gives them a kind of ease and appropriateness, as though the poet ...
... rhyming of "attained" with "strained" is perhaps a little forced, with its unconversational pronunciation, but the very fact that these words are the rhyme words gives them a kind of ease and appropriateness, as though the poet ...
Page 176
... rhyme, In namely, westlin jingle. While frosty winds blaw in the drift, Ben to the chimla lug, I grudge a wee the ... rhyme," and after the word "rhyme" comes the second short line, "In hamely, westlin jingle," giving the very effect of ...
... rhyme, In namely, westlin jingle. While frosty winds blaw in the drift, Ben to the chimla lug, I grudge a wee the ... rhyme," and after the word "rhyme" comes the second short line, "In hamely, westlin jingle," giving the very effect of ...
Page 339
... rhyme of the fourth and second lines turns the stanza over, as it were, to start on a new tack; the second rhyming word of the first part of the verse becomes the first rhyming word of the second. To mold the thought of the poem to such ...
... rhyme of the fourth and second lines turns the stanza over, as it were, to start on a new tack; the second rhyming word of the first part of the verse becomes the first rhyming word of the second. To mold the thought of the poem to such ...
Contents
Chapter Two growth of a poet | 34 |
Chapter Three the Kilmarnock volume | 105 |
Chapter Four the omitted poems | 196 |
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