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Horatio Winslow

Rhymes and Meters

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    This book has been compiled with one end in view: to arrange in a convenient and inexpensive form the fundamentals of verse
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    At the same time, even a poet must learn to handle his verse with some degree of skill or his work is apt to fall very flat, and the mere verse writer who cannot rhyme correctly and fit his lines together in meter had much better stick to prose.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    The ability to write verse can be acquired; only a poet can write poetry.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Though most poetry is in verse form, most verse is not poetry.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Throughout the following pages “verse” stands for any kind of metrical composition as distinguished from prose. It is not used as a synonym for “poetry.”
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