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In a message dated 8/25/2010 5:47:32 PM Central Daylight Time,
glipon@INNERLEA.COM writes:
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> On Aug 25, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Hyman, Eric wrote:
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> >> Neither Browning nor Shade’s verse is heroic couplets (as some say),
>> because of that enjambment,
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> and Chaucer too?
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Purists would contend that true heroic couplets must be end-stopped in the
manner of Dryden, Pope, and many other poets of that time. But the term
usually denotes just the form--rhymed pairs of pentameters. Enjambment has
varied from poet to poet--Keats, Byron, and Browning often enjamb fairly
radically, as did Lowell. Shade enjambs quite a bit, but generally his units of
thought work out in two-line pairs. Not always, though. Frost's lovely "The
Tuft of Flowers" breaks the couplets (with white space) into separate
stanzas.
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glipon@INNERLEA.COM writes:
>
> On Aug 25, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Hyman, Eric wrote:
>
> >> Neither Browning nor Shade’s verse is heroic couplets (as some say),
>> because of that enjambment,
>
>
>
> and Chaucer too?
>
>
>
Purists would contend that true heroic couplets must be end-stopped in the
manner of Dryden, Pope, and many other poets of that time. But the term
usually denotes just the form--rhymed pairs of pentameters. Enjambment has
varied from poet to poet--Keats, Byron, and Browning often enjamb fairly
radically, as did Lowell. Shade enjambs quite a bit, but generally his units of
thought work out in two-line pairs. Not always, though. Frost's lovely "The
Tuft of Flowers" breaks the couplets (with white space) into separate
stanzas.
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