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.
What to read after My Threescore Years And Ten An Autobiography?
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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