Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...happy selection, the swing and rhythm suggesting the graceful evolutions and music of the ball-room. One or two slight errors of rhyme are noticeable, but they are pardonable in consideration of the wealth of poetic diction, delicacy of description, and aptness of similes which characterize the whole poem. "Tomorrow" is a meritorious epigram...
...verse of the number is common-place. The "Triolets" have none of that delicacy of turn and sentiment which this particular form of rhyme should exhibit. The other poem of the number is a sonnet upon "Greatness," a word which stands in direct contrast to the lines it heads. The chief features of this sonnet are the absence of poetical imagery and a presence of mixed metaphors...
About thirty-five men sat down to the Glee Club Dinner at Young's on Saturday evening. L. F. Berry '92 read an original poem...
...Advocate enters upon its twenty-sixth year and fifty-first volume with the number which comes out today. It is pre-eminently a prose number, there being but one short poem of six lines. Most of the stories are written by new men and are in great measure unpretentious relations of incidents common to a college man's life...
...Tenebris," the only verse of the number,-for it is not a poem-is a sonnet on the lofty subject of mid-year examinations. A sonnet is not usually considered the fittest metrical form for persiflage of this character...