Word: quatrains
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...case of men who have served six months, and it is mournfully agreed that the accidental breach in the wall can never be made quite strong again. Oxford, too, has shown signs of weakening, in spite of the presence of Murray as Regius Professor, in spite of the quatrain of a generation...
...poetry, E. E. Hunt's translation and P. A. Hutchison's "Quatrain" are well-phrased, and the "Song" by W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez has a pleasing melody. But most notable is J. H. Wheelock's "Dawn in the City," which, in spite of serious defects, is well worth reading. Its merit lies in the vividness of its pictures, and the success the writer achieves in conveying the feeling inspired by a prospect of city streets in the gray light of morning. In this it recalls some of Mr. Henley's London poems. But its effectiveness is weakened by a curious...
...verse, Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez contributes a Christmas sonnet in dignified yet not quite comfortable English; Mr. Greene a quatrain, which, like most attempts at packing poetry, wants ease and life; Mr. Aiken a longer poem ("The Spirit of Christmas Eve"), which shows little individuality, and not much responsiveness in vocabulary. Mr. Wheelock appears twice in this number, neither time in a Christmas spirit and neither time at his best. "The Return after Death" is ambitious and in spots effective, but suffers from want of metrical skill and from occasional weakness of word. The "Song," though less faulty, is also less...
...would find it hard to describe the odor either of a swarm of bees or of a maiden-hair fern. In "The, Golden Calf" Mr. Pulsifer expounds a false idea. Many men are neither the slaves nor the masters of money--professors, for example. F. Biddle's quatrain is expressed with neatness and restraint, and "The Wind" by Mr. C. P. Aiken is the most imaginative thing in the issue. Mr. Alfred, Noyes's "The Flowers of Old Japan" is appreciatively noticed...
...verse that suggests a different metre from what is coming. The conception of "Sonoratown" is better than the execution, which is metrically uncomfortable. The sonnet "On the First Movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony" is able writing, but not clear. "On a Sundial" is a pleasing but unsatisfying epigrammatic quatrain...