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...poem was written in an internal rhyme style, which means that words rhyme within each line--a style Shakespeare had not previously used. Because Shakespeare was a frequent innovator, his use of a different style indicates further that he might have written it, Taylor said...
WILLIAM & MARY 35, PRINCETON 31. Princeton quarterback Doug Butler, taking a page out of Redskin signalcaller Joe Theismann's book, tries to get his last name to rhyme with "Heisman" to improve his chances of winning that famous trophy...
...Widener Library's steps listening prayerfully to speeches about El Salvador. After a while all of us in the audience lit our short white candles and marched around the Yard with our arms linked, chanting "One, two, three, four: U.S. out of El Salvador!" Four years later, the chants rhyme 'Bok" and "racist stock," we're still in El Salvador, and I haven't done a damn thing about...
Long became assistant majority leader in 1965, but his stewardship was erratic because of drinking and marital problems, and Ted Kennedy ousted him in 1969. Soon after, he remarried, swore off the bottle and has been back at his eloquent best ever since. Using rhyme to reason, he coined a popular Senate witticism: "Don't tax you, don't tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree." Younger Senators learned to fear the wily negotiator, and on the morning after the 1980 election, when Democrats had lost control of the Senate, Robert Dole, Long's successor to the chairmanship, quipped...
...runs on incessantly, ubiquitously beneath the speech, providing less of a meaningful subtext than a distraction or, at worst, an embarrassment, as the unfortunate singers actors explode into snatches of unsingable, off-key melody. This post-Wagnerian syndrome is if anything aggravated by the nature of the text: to rhyme or not to rhyme is the crucial question that seems never to have been settled. The effect is unsettling, between intervals of approximately human speech, the characters too often lapse into agonizingly contrived couplets to our dismay we encounter such rhymes as "gluttony/button, he." Nobler no, to notice; "it doesn...