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| | Meter (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Meters in English verse, and in the classical Western poetic tradition on which it is founded, are named by the characteristic foot and the number of feet per line. | | | Prosody is sometimes used to describe poetic meter, and indicates the analysis of similar aspects of language in linguistics. | | | Also important in Greek and Latin poetry is the dactylic pentameter. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter_(poetry)
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| | Poetry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Poetry (from Ancient Greek: ποιέω/ποιῶ (poiéo/poió) = I create) is traditionally a written art form (although there is also an ancient and modern poetry which relies mainly upon oral or pictorial representations) in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. | | | The increased emphasis on the aesthetics of language and the deliberate use of features such as repetition, meter and rhyme, are what are commonly used to distinguish poetry from prose, but debates over such distinctions still persist, while the issue is confounded by such forms as prose poetry and poetic prose. | | | Many of the scriptures currently held to be sacred by contemporary religious traditions with their roots in antiquity were composed as poetry rather than prose to aid memorization and help guarantee the accuracy of oral transmission in pre-literate societies. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry
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| | Meter - Element of Poetry |
| | Nonmetrical poetry is called free because the poet has freed himself from conforming himself to the set of metrical patterns. | | | Scansion is the act of making a poem to show the metrical units of which it is composed. | | | Free verse must not be confused with "blank verse', which is the customary label for iambic pentameter without rhyme. |
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http://litera1no4.tripod.com/meter_frame.html
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| | Poetry Terms |
| | The definition of poetry is a type of literature that is written in meter. | | | Blank verse is in unrhymed iambic pentameter which is a type of meter in poetry, in which there are five iambs to a line. | | | A line of poetry that has 12 syllables and derives from a medieval romance about Alexander the Great that was written in 12-syllable lines. |
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http://www.poetry-online.org/poetry-terms.htm
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| | Comments on 14641 Ask MetaFilter |
| | In its day, this was one of the most popular how-to guides to English poetry; so if you were an eighteenth-century gentleman wanting to turn out some passable verses in praise of your mistress's eyebrows, this is the book you would probably have looked at. | | | As far as they were concerned, having an 'ear' for poetry was like having good taste or good breeding -- either you had it or you didn't; it couldn't be taught -- so (according to Groves) this non-theory of English metrics very conveniently reinforced the English class system. | | | That was a centerpeice of every educated person's schooling until the early 20th century, and it's very easy to see how a deep familiarity with the styles, modes, topics, and structure of many poets would create the scaffolding upon which new poets could build. |
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| | poetic meter |
| | The bible of most poets today regarding meter and sound is a book by Paul Fussell called Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. | | | This site provides interactive tutorials in poetic forms and meter, links to other poetry sites, and numerous examples of stanzas and fixed poetic forms. | | | first year of graduate school, Paul Fussell's "Poetic Meter and Poetic Form" was one of the first text... |
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| | Meter |
| | It has been argued that Greek meter was not well suited to the Latin language, as Latin words have different long and short syllable sequences and they are based on accent rather than pitch. | | | Dactylic hexameter was the meter the Romans used for epic and narrative poetry (cf. | | | Reading Latin Poetry will enable you to hear Latin verse read rhythmically, though the RealAudio player is required. |
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http://www.vroma.org/~araia/scansion.html
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| | Meter in English poetry the metrical foot |
| | Accentual-syllabic meter accounts for the vast majority of poems in the English language, although non-metrical poetry, such as free verse, is currently much more in vogue. | | | The word "meter" comes from the Greek word for "measure." The term refers to a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poetic line. | | | Nevertheless, the Old-English alliterative-stress metrical pattern has continued to be used on occasion by English poets, right up to the present time. |
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http://nv.essortment.com/metricalfoot_rxjm.htm
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| | Jough Dempsey "What The Hell Is Poetry?" poetry articles plagiarist.com |
| | That isn't to say that a great deal of the world's best poetry is not written in meter - just that free verse has grown in popularity for both poets and modern readers of poetry. | | | You may be hard-pressed to find a poem that rhymes in a contemporary poetry journal. | | | Another sign that what you're reading is a poem is a device called "poetic diction." This is that highfalutin language that turns off a lot of readers to reading a great deal of poetry written before the twentieth century. |
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http://www.plagiarist.com/articles?artid=2
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| | "Poetic Meter in English: Roots and Possibilities" by Richard Moore |
| | It is the perfect symbol for Frost's sense of the brutality that coexists with the beauty on this particular corner of earth, and meter plays a large role in bringing it to life. | | | Yet superb poetry has been written in this scheme, and it may well be the most viable metric available to contemporary poets. | | | In the hexameter line of the Greek and Roman epic, as I have remarked, spondees are substituted for dactyls in the first four feet with perfect freedom. |
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http://www.poemtree.com/poems/PoeticMeterInEnglish.htm
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| | OWL at Purdue University: Meter |
| | A caesura is a long pause in the middle of a line of poetry. | | | The bible of most poets today regarding meter and sound is a book by Paul Fussell called Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. | | | The former is the more common; adherence to the latter often leads an English language poet toward self-conscious verse, as their predictable rhythms are counter to natural English speech. |
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http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_meter.html
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| | E-Intro to Old English - 13. Meter |
| | The poetry also employed a strict rhythmic scheme, which you will find to be markedly different from the rhythms employed by later poets such as Chaucer and Shakespeare. | | | You should track down a facsimile of the manuscript of a poem you are reading (follow the references in Appendix C) and compare it with the printed edition. | | | You should be aware, though, that in Old English manuscripts the poetry is not broken into lines, but rather written continuously, like prose. |
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http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/research/rawl/IOE/pometer.html
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| | PAL: Appendix F - Elements of Poetry: A Brief Introduction |
| | Haiku is an unrhymed poem of seventeen syllables derived from Japanese verse; it is made up of three lines, lines 1 and 3 have five syllables, line 2 has seven. | | | Ode, English in origin, is a poem of indefinite length, divided in 10-line stanzas, rhymed, with different schemes for each stanza - ababcdecde, written in iambic meter. | | | Narrative form is used to tell a story; it is usually made of ballad stanzas - four lines alternatively of four and three feet. |
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http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/append/AXF.HTML
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| | The Basics of Formal Meter - Poetry |
| | Meter is the basis for most structured poetic forms in English. | | | If you were to ask most modern poets -- professional or amateur -- in what mode they write, chances are the vast majority would answer, “free verse.” There’s nothing strange about that: lyric free verse has become the defacto standard for contemporary poetry, at least in the English-speaking world. | | | But how many of you have stopped to consider from what exactly “free verse” is free? |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art30083.asp
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| | Poetry Explication |
| | Meter (from the Greek metron, meaning measure) refers principally to the recurrence of regular beats in a poetic line. | | | With this line of thought, the writer could also examine more closely the speaker's movement from perplexity (I am trapped but the waters are free) to a kind of resolution (the fountain and the sea are as trapped as I am). | | | In this example, Milton forges such a tension to present immediately the essential conflicts that lead to the fall of Adam and Eve. |
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http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/poetry-explication.html
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| | About Poetry |
| | There are other meters, but these are mostly from Greek and Latin poetry (the preceding six are also found in Greek and Latin poetry), and are not very applicable to English poetry. | | | Here are the most common meters you find in English poetry. | | | grammatical sense runs from one line of poetry to the next without pause or punctuation; opposite of |
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http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/prosody.htm
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| | Malcolm Hayward |
| | For example, it might be hypothesized that the types of variation a poet will introduce into his or her lines of poetry will not be random. | | | In summary, the computerized connectionist model of poetic meter was successful in determining significant differences among the ten poets analyzed. | | | In the neo-classical poetry of Jonson, Prior, and Pope one expects a certain regularity of rhythm, smooth numbers, as it was termed. |
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http://www.english.iup.edu/mhayward/Metrics/Cormetrics.htm
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| | Poetry Reading List - Meter, Rhyme and Poetic Form |
| | The book on meter, and is likely to be the standard work for the foreseeable future. | | | Excellent introduction to poetic form; Hollander illustrates each of the forms by writing a poem in that form which explains that form. | | | Deals mainly with meter, and is an excellent introduction for those beginning the study of meter (Howard Miller) |
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http://www.everypoet.net/~everycom/readinglist_meter.htm
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| | Meter/Rhythm - Eratosphere |
| | Mezey and to Frost on just about anything having to do with meter and/or rhythm, but I thought Sphereans would be interested to know that X. Kennedy (in one of his notes in his textbook empire) specifically equates meter and rhythm, saying he has to chuckle at people who bother to differentiate them. | | | This variation in width of syllables (or the time it takes to say them), when added to meter (which is based entirely on stress), adds a wonderful dimension to English poetry. | | | It is the drama (and comedy) in the poem that shows me where the emphasis should be when reading a poem aloud, and not the meter. |
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http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/ubbhtml/Forum19/HTML/000206.html
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| | Amazon.com: Poetic Meter and Poetic Form: Books: Paul Fussell |
| | If you want to write better poetry or understand the poetry you read, then this is a good book to pick up. | | | But it's the most excellent book on writing poetry and poetic form I've read. | | | Or if your interest is in free verse, he devotes a chapter to examining the characteristics of successful free verse, including how line breaks create effects. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0075536064?v=glance
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| | Poetic Analysis |
| | Perhaps the largest single element determining poetic voice is the poet's particular use of meter or his avoidance of it. | | | The best suggestion might be that the poet "distances" his material through meter in order to make poetry of it, to raise it to the level of contemplation. | | | A discussion of stress FOLLOWS other aspects of form--the stresses are not marked, however, so you might be better served simply by referring to "meter" in a glossary of literary terms like M. Abrams A Glossary of Literary Terms. |
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http://www.newhaven.edu/faculty/sloane/popups/e39202.html
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| | Jahn: Poetry |
| | This is the most common type of foot in English poetry and a useful mnemonic is to associate it with what is probably the best-known line in English literature, "to be or not to be" (Shakespeare). | | | British and American Classical Poems is a carefully annotated and lovingly illustrated anthology of poetry in which the poems are arranged not, as is usual, by author or historical sequence but by text types. | | | Text is all German, but references are international; detailed intro to the theory of verse (rather than of meter), overview of poetic forms, sample interpretations (termpapers, in German), large classified list of poetry websites. |
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http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppp.htm
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| | Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Accentual Meter |
| | He was a keen defender of traditional forms, and pretty much all his poetry feels metrical. | | | The other major source of accentual verse in English is traditional oral poetry - nursery rhymes, street-cries and so on. | | | Coincidentally, Dana Gioia has a discussion of accentual meter in a new essay "Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture" in the current (Spring 2003) issue of The Hudson Review. |
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http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15199
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| | Tools for Analyzing Poetry |
| | Essay on Criticism, in which he illustrates how many different metric effects can be achieved with iambic pentameter verse | | | Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry (University of Toronto); see especially lines 337-383 of Alexander Pope's poetic | | | Rhythm and Meter in English Poetry (Harry Rusche, Emory University) |
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http://www.cnr.edu/home/bmcmanus/meter.html
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| | Poetry |
| | As she browsed the unsolicited manuscripts just before the issue was to go to press, Monroe made the most influential discovery of her career. | | | At the risk of reducing January’s exchange on “women’s poetry” to sophomoric and paranoid tallying, I found it odd that only a handful of living women poets were mentioned, with an equal number of dead women poets, and many, many dead men poets.... | | | Frequently those who feel wronged politically, as in having been underrepresented in a canonical anthology, will wring their hands over who was not included. |
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http://www.poetrymagazine.org
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| | Introductory Poetry Terms |
| | blank verse) is probably the most common non-ballad line in English poetry. | | | This is why poetry is so difficult to translate. | | | Figures of speech such as simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol are common in poetry. |
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http://www.leasttern.com/Poetry/poetryterms.htm
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| | Silly Settings |
| | Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, much of Shakespeare's plays, Milton's Paradise Lost, and sonnet after sonnet after sonnet rely on this meter. | | | This poem, by William Blake, is written in trochaic tetrameter. | | | P.S. Today (5/7/02) a karaoke angel named Matt Love sent me the MIDI of "Hernando's Hideaway," for which I am eternally grateful. |
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http://www.andover.edu/english/jgould/singingmuse/sillysets.html
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| | Rhyme Central - Down to Earth Poetry for Regular Folks |
| | This bustling station, gleefully tended by yours truly, Mary, serves as the first whistle stop on the way to eight distinctively different collections of verse, all written in soul-satisfying rhyme and meter. | | | Rhyme Central - Down to Earth Poetry for Regular Folks | | | Chug on over to Onion Junction for a general overview of the community or, if you prefer to proceed full steam ahead, perhaps you'd like to Follow Me on a personal guided tour. |
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| | Poetry Form - The Sonnet. |
| | One of the more delightful Sonnets about Sonnets is by Billie Collins (author of Sailing Alone Around the Room) | | | Alphabetic list of poetry forms and related topics. | | | --> called (inevitably) Sonnet; it was first published in Poetry, 173 (4) (February, 1999). |
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| | Frank Halliwell's Rhyme & Meter Poetry |
| | Any new poetry will normally appear on the last page, and may not appear immediately on every index! | | | And then perfect meter, to accent great rhyme! | | | Produces a rhyme that is apt to depress! |
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| | RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS : LYRIC POETRY WEBSITE |
| | Failing this, there may be verse, rhyme, and meter, but not poetry. | | | There may be poetry without rhyme, but hardly without meter. | | | Poetry involves the imagination in a way always beautiful, often lofty or even sublime. |
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| | Rhyme & Meter in Children's Poetry |
| | Rhyme is also an important element of scansion, and of poetry in general. | | | Note that the rhyme pattern follows the metricalpattern: the trimeter lines rhyme on the A word; the dimeter lines on the B word. | | | As these markings will tell you, the verse alternates trimeter lines with dimeter: 2 trimeter, 2 dimeter, then one trimeter again. |
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http://www.richmond.edu/~egruner/english203/rhyme.html
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| | virtuaLit: Elements of Poetry |
| | This rhythm is often described as a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. | | | DEFINITION OF Meter is the rhythm established by a poem, and it is usually dependent not only on the number of syllables in a line but also on the way those syllables are accented. | | | See how meter functions in "To His Coy Mistress" |
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| | [New-Poetry] Ghost of meter |
| | The title is "Disorderly Orders: Free Verse, Chaos, and the Tradition." The essay goes into the whole "ghost of meter" thing. | | | One drawback is that my scansion marks over the verse got lost when the editor translated to its online format. | | | Moira Russell wrote: "Also, with "musicality/rhythms," what exact way can we talk about these without the framework of meter and rhyme? |
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http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/pipermail/new-poetry/2001-February/000182.html
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| | Metre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The metre or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. | | | For other uses of metre, see meter (disambiguation). | | | The Metre (or Meter) is the base fundamental unit of length in the metric measurement system as defined originally by the French Academy of Sciences during the French Revolutionary–Napoleonic war era, and subsequently adopted by various successive International Standards Committees as the utility, elegance, and self-consitancy of the system led to wider acceptance and use. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter
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| | Craft of Poetry |
| | "Craft of Poetry" is a Fall 2001 course at the University of Northern Iowa focusing on the study of writing poems in rhyme, meter, and inherited forms. | | | Since Damon has graduated and moved on to other pursuits and successes, he no longer teaches this class with Vince, but the website has been left as is, with Damon's work unchanged, because it's valuable to have a variety of different viewpoints on these topics. | | | Damon's descriptions focus on the seven types of poetry studied in this class, while Vince's treatments outline the seven poetic elements taken up throughout the semester. |
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http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry
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| | Rhythm and Meter in English Poetry |
| | English poetry employs five basic rhythms of varying stressed (/) and unstressed (x) syllables. | | | The number of syllables in a line varies therefore according to the meter. | | | In this document the stressed syllables are marked in boldface type rather than the tradition al "/" and "x." Each unit of rhythm is called a "foot" of poetry. |
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http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/meter.html
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| | Latin Poetry |
| | This site intends to offer a medium for critical essays and creative interpretations of the poetry written by C. Valerius Catullus. | | | In the near future, I intend to include some of the original poetry, a few translations (most likely my own), notes on meter, some biographical data, and a few short essays. | | | This page has been terribly neglected for the past few months, and I apologize to everyone who has written me and not received a reply. |
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http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/rcardona/poetry/catullus/catullus.html
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| | Poetry for Children |
| | Teaching with Poetry: Finding Material for Poetry Mini-Lessons | | | [Forms of Poetry] [Poetry in the Classroom] [Selected Poetry E-texts] [Poetry Bibliographies] | | | Poetry Writing with Jack Prelutsky, Karla Kuskin and Jean Marzollo |
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http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/poechild.htm
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| | Frank Halliwell's Rhyme & Meter Poetry |
| | Polish it with precise meter with perfection in each line, | | | Then take a story of to-day and work to set it free. | | | And bejewel with depth of feeling 'til the story line's sublime. |
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