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... Verse form , rhythms and rhyme The stock of English poetry was refreshed and enriched as much in versification as in language by the new poet's printed Calender . Published verse for a generation had been predominantly in the plain ...
... Verse form , rhythms and rhyme The stock of English poetry was refreshed and enriched as much in versification as in language by the new poet's printed Calender . Published verse for a generation had been predominantly in the plain ...
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... verse bound by end - rhyme in a number of old romances or in prologues to Gavin Douglas's Eneados ( London , c . 1553 ) , a translation of Vergil's Aeneid which he certainly knew . In March the shepherds ' talk and their fable are in ...
... verse bound by end - rhyme in a number of old romances or in prologues to Gavin Douglas's Eneados ( London , c . 1553 ) , a translation of Vergil's Aeneid which he certainly knew . In March the shepherds ' talk and their fable are in ...
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... verse at the time was ' flowing ' ; King James of Scotland uses it in his Schort Treatise of 1584 , Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Arte of Poesy . Verse flowed as water does . Time and again Spenser uses the figure ' to tune his verses ...
... verse at the time was ' flowing ' ; King James of Scotland uses it in his Schort Treatise of 1584 , Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Arte of Poesy . Verse flowed as water does . Time and again Spenser uses the figure ' to tune his verses ...
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