Word: anacolnthon
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...simplicity and primitive crudeness; he has made his characters tell the tale, and thereby lost the godlike detachment of the theme; he has tried the balled stanza and has made a Indicrous failure of that difficult form so losing all claim to poetic merit. Use of the classic device anacolnthon has made ungrammatical hash, unpalatable, wretched English, as witness the line. "Yet many, like myself, am slave." This is not to say that there are no good lines in the poem, nor that the treatment in places is not amazingly fine, but the whole is no better than its average...
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