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...trilingual life enables Nabokov to play complicated games with the meanings of words. Fyodor is a poet, and without warning his thoughts run in poetic form; only the reader wary of Nabokov's incorrigible love of verbal conjuring will notice that whole pages printed as prose conceal rhyme schemes or blank verse and complicated prosodical measures...
...Shakespeare looms in "With this I thee wed, as long as men shall sing." Finally, his poem manages to rhyme without seeming pusby. One stanza...
...clowns in three rounds," intoned Heavyweight Cassius Clay. True to his word, it was in the third that Clay's foe hit the hay. But the boastful young bard, although he slugs hard, must face Sonny Listen some time. And while he can't rhyme. Sonny's right is sublime-and each doggerel...
...Mormon, and former church editor for the Salt Lake Tribune, I would like to point out that in your story on the testimonial for President David O. McKay that McKay does not rhyme with eye. It rhymes with...
...with the hand of a giant clock, tries with all his might-and fails. Next day he says to her tenderly: "I see a girl who looks like a pearl. A pearl of a girl." She glows like a pearl. Then all at once Lisa stops bothering about rhyme, and Muriel makes a drawing that shows her two personalities united in an all-inclusive...