Word: rhymes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Never read anything so desolate, and yet so decently resigned. Receipt:- first find a good double rhyme, - like "savour," "flavour," or "candle," "handle." The first line does not rhyme, and the second can easily be worked in afterwards. Then take a comparison to one of the months, as he has to June, such as "March without mud" or "February without Semis," - or anything that is strange and unnatural...
...must, then, have mistaken the intention of the Lit.'s poet. Will the Courant kindly explain what the unusual metre is? The idea, however, of "A Counterfeit Presentment" is very pretty, and very well worked out. It may also be mentioned in this connection that the lines containing the rhyme to which the Advocate objected so strenuously in its last number, are quoted from Mrs. Browning's "A Portrait," one of her most familiar poems...
Simply because they rhyme...
...softly as an antique rhyme...
...case. The Senior with four electives is required to have an average of fifty per cent on them all at the end of the year. This does not imply thorough work; and if any one desires to take up fewer things and do them more thoroughly, is there any rhyme or reason for denying his request...