Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Modern Language Review, Vol. 10
Whitman's criticism of rhyme is Significant. The argument that rhyme produces a comic effect is one often used against it by partisans of the vers libre. The verslibristes themselves started by weakening the rhyme-endings, and paying less attention to this feature of the verse, which had been so important for the Parnassians'. In his Art poétique, a sacred text for the Symbolists, Paul Verlaine writes.
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