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They are conveniently indicated by using letters of the alphabet to correspond with each rhyme-sound, whenever repeated. Thus the rhymed couplet "Around their prows the ocean roars, And chafes beneath their thousand oars" may be marked as "four-stress iambic," rhyming aa; the heroic couplet "The zeal of fools offends at any time, But most of all the zeal of fools in rhyme"
But although we may follow with keen intellectual delight these large, free handlings of a lyrical theme, there are few readers of poetry whose susceptibility to complicated combinations of rhyme-sound allows them to perceive the full verbal beauty of the great irregular odes.
For sheer improvising cleverness of rhyme Byron is still unmatched, but he often contents himself with approximate rhymes that are nearly as bad as some of Mrs. Browning's and Whittier's. Very different is the deliberate artifice of the following lines, where the monotony of the rhyme-sound fits the "solemn ennui" of the trailing peacocks;
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