Word: rhymed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Little Indians is an anemic copy of the 1945 film And Then There Were None, which was based on the stage adaptation of Agatha Christie's durable whodunit, which was inspired by the nursery rhyme. Unfortunately, nothing has been added but tired blood...
Lyrics are often the most serious problem. Zambia had no trouble deciding on an ancient African air for its melody, but needed verses which would rhyme in English and in its four major tribal tongues. To help the 250 entrants in its anthem contest remember the tune, the government ordered all Zambia radio stations to play it for three weeks. In Nigeria, where 250 languages are spoken, and in Ghana, where there are 56, the governments gave up and called for lyrics only in English; the anthems of most of former French Africa are written only in French...
...Commedia is composed of three colossal canticles: I'lnferno, il Purgatorio, il Paradiso. Each canticle, if the first canto of I'lnferno is counted as a prologue, contains 33 cantos, and each canto contains about 142 lines composed in terza rima, a rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded, and so on) so cruelly intricate that only Dante ever mastered its hazards...
...English teacher once who said that the reason for writing poetry with rhyme and meter was that it made you think about what you were trying to say. The explanation seemed inadequate at the time, but when I tried writing verse of my own, I found that, as far as it went, the statement was true. By the same token, there seems to be an advantage in putting on plays in the Adams House Dining Room or the Loeb Experimental Theatre. This year, at least, Harvard drama thrived on limitation...
...judge by his poetry, Larkin is anything but brown and passionless. Larkin has blood in his eye and a shout in his throat, but his emotions are caged in an iron ordinariness of language, and the cage is caged in an intricate grille of rhyme and meter. By dint of prodigious effort and still more prodigious skill, Larkin marvelously merges form and content. The bars and his imprisoned emotions disappear; in their stead a poem stands...