Word: quartrains
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...first stanza is suggestive of Donne, is pleasing throughout; but, like the first poem, it is better in the first half than in the second. His "Recompense" expresses an old idea with much beauty, and would be satisfying if he had stopped after two stanzas, omitting the final quartrain. Mr. Whittlesey's "Lines" deal gracefully with a familiar form of the pathetic fallacy. Mr. Auslander's "Forsaken" is pretty, but not quite so pretty as it should be, Mr. Simpson's Imitation of the Rubaiyat" is creditable but not valuable. Mr. Allinson contributes two poems, "Die Gotterdammerrung" and a sonnet...
...verse of the number included two good little things, the quartrain signed "L. H." being very clever...
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