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Eddie verse is governed solely by the latter, and the strophic arrangement is simple, only two forms occurring: couplets of alliterative short lines; six-line strophes, consisting of a couplet followed by a single short line, the whole repeated. Roughly speaking, the first two-fifths of the MS. is mythological, the rest heroic.
He found in the New England edition of The World a six-line item giving an astonishing death rate for the Morris Prison. "We are going to print the news, all the news and nothing but the news," Howard said to Cumnock. "They've put you here because, so they tell me, you know news no matter how thoroughly it is concealed or disguised. And I assure you that no one shall interfere with you.
Mycerinus, a piece of some 120 lines or so, in thirteen six-line stanzas and a blank-verse coda, is one of those characteristic poems of this century, which are neither mere "copies of verses," mere occasional pieces, nor substantive compositions of the old kind, with at least an attempt at a beginning, middle, and end.
None of the wishy-washy tittle-tattle interested me, in fact. There was only one little six-line paragraph that really caught me. This grasped my adventurous spirit by the throat and refused to let go. The atmosphere surrounding the paragraph was spirituous with enchantment. There was a genuine novelty about this dance.
In an interesting note to the Centenary Burns, edited by Henley and Henderson, it is pointed out that 'the six-line stave in rime couée built on two rhymes, was used by the Troubadours in their Chansons de Gestes, and that it dates at the very latest from the eleventh century.
Frequently there is no one to play the instrument, and the hymns are started several times, until something resembling the right pitch is struck. Sometimes a six-line hymn will be started to a common metre tune, and all goes swimmingly until the inevitable crash at the end of the fourth line. But nothing daunted, we try and try again.
And she did sing that night as she had never sung to them before, with a fuller voice and more passion than she had hitherto shown, one little wild ballad in particular taking Reay's fancy so much that he asked her to sing it more than once. The song contained just three six-line stanzas, having little merit save in their suggestiveness. Oh love, my love!
The thing that pleased me most in the whole paper, however, was the interview with George in the third column. It was quite short only a six-line paragraph headed "Mr. Marwood and the Escape," but brief as it was, it filled me with a rich delight. "Interviewed by our Special Correspondent at his residence on the Chelsea Embankment, Mr.
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