Word: nash
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...never heard a word of Nash in my college courses on New Criticism, So I will now exert all my analytic powers to convert his witticism to Holy Writicism. His forte was the metrical line so unbalanced as to be bonkers, For while other poets, even after they had renounced rhyming as old-hat, would still compose verse in a familiar meter, Nash would keep a line going longer than a Bishop Sheen speech or a Jerry Colonna note, while winding toward some tortured rhyme and keeping readers guessing whether he'd finish up in Yonkers, or call certain people...
...When Nash's lines didn't run on longer than a sentence by Faulkner or Joyce, They were so short that intoning them would not have strained Calvin Coolidge's voice...
...Nash, terseness was a valuable rhetorical device, breaking seven words into four lines for "Reflection on Ice-Breaking...
...Nash couplet was just the thing for a dull day to let a little pizzazz...
...Most poets toiled as an iambler, But few as smooth as this Nash rambler...