My Threescore Years And Ten An Autobiography
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" Feb. 14, 1866.
MY THREESCORE YEARS AND TEN. 261 If the reader has been patient enough to wade through the above effusions, he or she must ac- knowledge that I do possess a faculty for rhyming, for which I claim no credit ; it was born with me, as my voice was. If rhyming only constituted poetry, what a poet I might have been ! which reminds me of an argument I once had with a man who, intelligent enough in other respects, could see nothing to admire in poetry that did not rhyme. Not being cap...able himself of finding a rhyme for " hay, " his admiration was the greater for poets who possessed that faculty. Hood was his particular favorite ; and he was never weary of repeating Poe's " Raven, " not for the poetry in it, but simply for the jingle and the trot. I astonished him by telling him that rhyme was not at all necessary to poetry, that anybody could rhyme, that I could find twenty rhymes to one word, and offering him a wager that I could write a poem of not less than twenty lines that should all rhyme to one word, and not much poetry about it either.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" Feb. 14, 1866.
MY THREESCORE YEARS AND TEN. 261 If the reader has been patient enough to wade through the above effusions, he or she must ac- knowledge that I do possess a faculty for rhyming, for which I claim no credit ; it was born with me, as my voice was. If rhyming only constituted poetry, what a poet I might have been ! which reminds me of an argument I once had with a man who, intelligent enough in other respects, could see nothing to admire in poetry that did not rhyme. Not being cap...able himself of finding a rhyme for " hay, " his admiration was the greater for poets who possessed that faculty. Hood was his particular favorite ; and he was never weary of repeating Poe's " Raven, " not for the poetry in it, but simply for the jingle and the trot. I astonished him by telling him that rhyme was not at all necessary to poetry, that anybody could rhyme, that I could find twenty rhymes to one word, and offering him a wager that I could write a poem of not less than twenty lines that should all rhyme to one word, and not much poetry about it either.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Thomas Ball to read onlineMoreLess
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