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...regard to verse, the same general principle, sincerity, which has been used in the foregoing papers of this discussion, will apply. A light, or humorous poem is sometimes tolerable, even if it lacks the greatest finish. A good joke may often carry off a poor rhyme. Yet an equally weak attempt to express something very thoughtful, produces an uncommonly depressing effect upon the reader. The language is so inadequate to the idea that the work is in no way successful. So, on this score alone, it is less hazardous to try light verse...
...thoughts to mingle with theirs? But can any one fully, appreciate these productions who has never studied or tried to express himself in verse, any more than a country-bred swain can comprehend the rich harmony of a Thomas concert? WE say not, and to remedy this ignorance of rhyme and this derogative opinion of it, we would propose that our English course be so arranged that practice shall be given in versifying and in the expression of poetical thought. If this were done, we claim that the present unfavorable critics, recognizing the difficulties arising in making a single smooth...
...disclaiming all partisanship in favor of what they mockingly call the French jingles. There is a college in New York which does not hear "the babbling of the brooks and twittering of the birds" in the rondeaux, ballades, triolets, and emphatically expresses its disapproval of such baubles of rhyme as follows...
Cranky metre and cranky rhyme...
...have before remarked, some of the shorter poems have serious faults, but they are only natural ones that experience would surely remove. In general there is a healthy imagery, a delicious freedom from that morbid, sickly perversion of aestheticism that is so much sought after by writers of rhyme at the present time. The poems are the offsprings of an unsullied imagination and of an intellect more vigorous and growing than subtle or matured; the poet thinks of something else than garden-wall or opera-box love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth...