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... couplets , simple without being dull , naïve in tone but with the incidents well manipulated and the story well constructed . The setting is medieval , of course , with nothing Greek about it : it is a minstrel tale of a rescue from ...
... couplets , simple without being dull , naïve in tone but with the incidents well manipulated and the story well constructed . The setting is medieval , of course , with nothing Greek about it : it is a minstrel tale of a rescue from ...
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... couplets to the complicated stanza of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . There was clearly a lot of experiment in versification going on among the Eng- lish romancers . They were learning how to rhyme in English in the French manner and ...
... couplets to the complicated stanza of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight . There was clearly a lot of experiment in versification going on among the Eng- lish romancers . They were learning how to rhyme in English in the French manner and ...
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... couplets , poems of compliments in seven - foot iambic couplets , poems translated from the Latin of the sixteenth - century French Calvinist theologian Theodore Beza , as well as from other sources , some of which are in blank verse ...
... couplets , poems of compliments in seven - foot iambic couplets , poems translated from the Latin of the sixteenth - century French Calvinist theologian Theodore Beza , as well as from other sources , some of which are in blank verse ...
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THE VICTORIAN POETS 993 | 13 |
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