Word: umbra
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Rubaiyat" is creditable but not valuable. Mr. Allinson contributes two poems, "Die Gotterdammerrung" and a sonnet. The first is chiefly in unrhymed pentameters, with nine-syllabled verses interspersed. Its workmanship is imperfect, and its lines tend to monotony; yet it is impressive in its dignity. His sonnet "Umbra Naturae" again shows either carelessness or radical doctrine as to versification: it begins with a nine-syllables verse (unless we give two syllables to "here"), and ends with what looks like a rough Alexandrine, but may be a badly accented pentameter with two trisyllabic feet...