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Unread 01-03-2012, 10:11 PM
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Not only Shelley but I too (gasp) line up the rhymes ahead of the sense. And, more importantly, Dryden said that the rhyme had often helped him to the sense. In fact that is, I think, my FAVOURITE quotation from a poet about writing poetry.
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