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...Sondheim would, and did: To find a rhyme for silver Or any "rhymeless" rhyme Requires only will, verBosity and time...
...opens magisterially: "There are several attitudes towards Christmas''-and proceeds to plead for the child's attitude. He cannot, of course, help noticing the cosmic worm in the plum pudding ("The awareness of death, the consciousness of failure"). But on the whole he is pleasant, his rhymeless phrases are more precisely tooled than Christmas tree ornaments, and the total effect is that of a very small and shaded candle...
There are five poems in this issue, all of them above the usual ideal of space fillers. Mr. Hillyer contributes two; a "Song" and a "Threnos." The "Song" is an exquisite bit--rhymeless, but using the same terminating words for each stanza. The "Threnos" is a sudden cynical outburst of still more interesting form; the lines of the first stanza become successively the refrains of the following stanzas. Mr. Cummings contributes a "Ballade of Soul," a true ballade--of a more complicated type, however, than generally seen. Yet Mr. Cummings, for all the limited number of rhymes, makes his poem...
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