Word: rhymes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lighter verse, more often bears the stamp of maturity and permanence. The verse in the issue, "The River Wall" and "To the Evening Star," avoids the common fault of mistaking obscurity for suggestiveness, and is moreover, exceptional for its musical fluency, delicacy of thought and happiness in choice of rhyme. The editorials are timely and pointed, but beside these, the prose in the issue merits little praise...
...Pity" by F. C. Gulick is an introspective sonnet which loses much by the obscurity of its symbolism and a bit of awkward phrasing. In "To a Stuffed Owl" and in "The Interval," W. Bynner has shown his versatility. "What the Sea Shell Told" is a pleasing bit of rhyme, but has no claim to originality of thought or treatment...
...attempt to imagine what was contained in a lost play by Aeschylus. The versification, however, which is almost entirely of blank form, does not follow the model of the ancients. Instead of ten syllables to a verse there are more often eleven, with now and then a passage in rhyme. The style as a whole is very subtle and obscure. The basis of the poem is the fable of Prometheus: He attempts to bring light and fire to the people of the earth, then in darkness, but only partly succeeds; and in the end ruins himself. Out of this myth...
...English literature, a position which he has lately given up, with the intention of devoting all his time to writing. Mr. Scollard's writings in verse include "With Reed and Lyre," "Old and New World Lyrics," "Songs of Sunrise Lands," "Pictures in Song," and "A Boy's Book of Rhyme...