The Rules Of Rhyme A Guide To English Versification PDF Download

Excerpt from The Rhymester, or the Rules of Rhyme: A Guide to English Versification With this conviction, I have discarded the title of a guide for poets, feeling that there is much real poetry that is not in verse, and a vast deal of verse that is not poetry; and that, therefore, a hard and fast line was of the first importance to mark the boundary of my undertaking. Poetry is far less a question of manner than Of matter, whereas versification is purely a question of form. I will even venture to say that some of our noblest poems are in prose; and that many great poets have been but inferior versifiers. But what these last wrote has possessed qualities compared with which the mere mechanism of their verse is as nothing. The poet gives to the world in his sublime thoughts diamonds of the pur est water. It would be idle to quibble about minor points of the polishing and setting of such gems - they would lose in the process! But the writer of verse does not - and should not - pretend to give us diamonds. He offers paste brilliants; and therefore it the more be hooves him to see to the perfection of the cut ting, on which their beauty depends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.