Word: couplets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even then his attitude toward his craft was that of an artisan. His favorite technique was to plot the meter, write down the rhyming words at the end of each line, last of all fill in the lines behind them. In one of his early poems "there was a couplet I liked" : Love's exultant roundelay Issues in a wail of pain...
...Sophocles" (later, Woollcott horrified the Borden Milk Co. by urging them to give the name Lizzie to an offspring of their prizewinning cow at the World's Fair). Woollcott believed that Harpo Marx had the makings of a great poet, and the silent Harpo obliged with one dry couplet...
Reference your review of A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake (TIME, Aug. 7) ... I suggest that the clue to this nightmare, as well as many other books that in view of the paper shortage should never have seen the light, can be found in the couplet of Pope: Such labored nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd, and make the learned smile...
...Sensation of the peep shows of 1896 was the prolonged kiss which May Irwin and John C. Rice translated from their stage hit, The Widow Jones. Clergymen shudderingly described the film as "a lyric of the stockyards." Now the clinch is to cinema what the final couplet is to the Shakespearean sonnet...
Another Irving Berlin hit (also from Paramount's Holiday Inn) last week made Negro editors reach for their editorial shotguns. Offending song was Abraham, which begins with the couplet: When black folks lived in slavery Who was it set the darky free...