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Auden is an accomplished rhymer and Shakespeare is not.

Princess, princess, youngest daughter,Open up and let me in!Or else your promise by the waterIsn’t w...

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Philip PullmanFairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do w...

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Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

I box in yellow Gox box socks.

A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispens...

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As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most eff...

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I must go down to the sea...to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star ...

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Lords of space and Lords of time,Lords of blessing, Lords of grace,Who is in the warmer clime?Who wi...

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