Essays and Marginalia, Issue 28, Volume 2E. Moxon, 1851 |
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Page 92 - I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains or stanzas of four in alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble and of greater dignity both for the sound and number than any other verse in use amongst us ; in which I am sure I have your approbation.
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