Word: stanzaic
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This restlessness saves Hardy the poet from his obsessions -- you might even say his monomania. His singular stanzaic shapes, his deliberately bumpy meters, his weird triple rhymes (frowardly/untowardly) all enliven and diversify his subject matter, which otherwise would be claustrophobically narrow. The number of his poems that concern romantic triangles, with, typically, one of the three parties represented by a ghost, must surely run into the hundreds...
Herself a poet and critic (Sir Gawain and the Green Knight), Miss Borroff spent last spring feeding the machine simple grammar, assorted stanzaic patterns and a vocabulary of 950 words that she selected by letting her finger fall blindly on poems in classical and avant-garde anthologies. Then she had the computer's random number generator make the word selections and let it rip-at two stanzas a second...
With his first two volumes, Fighting Terms and The Sense of Movement, Mr. Gunn became famous in England (though not, to our disgrace, in his adopted America) for toughness of diction, the swiftness and healthy outrageousness of his far-reaching, quasi-"metaphysical" conceits, and the organic tightness of his stanzaic units. In My Sad Captains epigrammatic audacity has largely given way to a sustained unity of impression. There is less concern with patterened formality here; the use of false- and half-rhyming, for example, hase become so ubiquitous that Mr. Gunn's "schemes" are mainly of assonance...
...Pindaric, False-Pinadric, Stanzaic, and Romantic," Professor Hillyer, Sever...
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