...chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gendy blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding...

...more than just a smoothing over of 'harshness' by art: 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is...strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours and the words move slow: (Essay on Criiicism, 364-71)' In a polemic designed to rescue metrical...

...chance, As those move easiest who have learned to dance. Tis not enough no harslmess gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense: Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently hlows, and the smooth stream in smoother numhers flows; But when loud surges slash the sounding shore,...

...of the sound echoing the sense (onomatopoeia is sometimes called "echoism") and gives as an example: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw The line too labors, and the words move slow open couplet: a couplet in verse where the sense is not complete by the end of the second line, but...

...specific Difference hetween the ancient and modern Compositions, and consequently their Excellency, s. "Soft is the Strain when zephyr gently Blows, And the smooth Stream in smoother numhers Flows; But when loud Surges lash the sounding Shore, The hoarse, rough Verse should like the...

...appearance together.' Note the melody and strength in these four lines from Pope's Essay on Criticism : ' Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the...hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar' The following excerpt, full of imagination, is by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: — ' Nothing is small...