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Originally posted by Golias:
It probably was not with this or any other of RB's dramatic monologues in mind that Wilde observed:
"Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning."
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Guess there's just no satisfying some tastes.
Of another undisputed master of metrics, Wilde observed: "There are two ways to dislike poetry. One is to dislike poetry. The other is to read Pope."
I'll toss in a plug for another RB tour de force I have always liked, "The Glove"--his retelling of the story of Leigh Hunt's "The Glove and the Lions." Among its elements of technical wit is the fact that [I use the now sometimes disparaged technical terms aptly] the entire poem of 190 lines is written in couplets of feminine rhyme--except for the 34 lines the lady speaks, in emphatically masculine rhyme.
Jan