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Practical Guide to English Versification

Note 16 — Chapter VI · OF RHYME.

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This does not apply to the generous use of a rhyme at the half-line to mark the cæsural pause, as in this line—

"'Twas in the prime of summer time."

Nor is there any objection—but rather the contrary—to the use of two rhyming words in a line, provided they are not identical with the final rhymes, as for example—

"That thrice the human span

Through gale and hail and fiery bolt

Had stood erect as man."

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