Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac’t indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them.
—John Milton, "The Measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," introduction to 1674 edition of Paradise Lost
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Showing posts with label rhyme. Show all posts
long line short line
By stress and syllable
by change-rhyme and contour
we let the long line pace even awkward to its period.
The short line
we refine
and keep for candor.
—Robert Duncan, from the poem “Keeping the Rhyme,” The Opening of the Field (New Directions, 1973)
by change-rhyme and contour
we let the long line pace even awkward to its period.
The short line
we refine
and keep for candor.
—Robert Duncan, from the poem “Keeping the Rhyme,” The Opening of the Field (New Directions, 1973)
erotic image
The poetic image is an embrace of opposite realities, and rhyme a copulation of sounds; poetry eroticizes language and the world, because the operation is erotic to begin with.
—Octavio Paz, "The Double Flame"
—Octavio Paz, "The Double Flame"
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