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Title: Rhyme? and reason?
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928 Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927
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Publisher: London : Macmillan and co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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when you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint;Dont state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint;And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint. For instance, if I wished, Sir, Of mutton-pies to tell,Should I say dreams of fleecy flocks Pent in a wheaten cell ? Why, yes, the old man said: that phrase Would answer very well. 126 POETA FIT, NON NASCITUR. Then fourthly, there are epithets That suit with any word—As well as Harveys Reading Sauce With fish, or flesh, or bird—Of these,wild/ lonely, weary, strange, Are much to be preferred. And will it do, O will it do To take them in a lump—As the wild man went his weary way To a strange and lonely pump ? Nay, nay ! You must not hastily To such conclusions jump. Such epithets, like pepper,Give zest to what you write ; And, if you strew them sparely,They whet the appetite : But if you lay them on too thick,You spoil the matter quite! > ■* >> a Last, as to the arrangement:Your reader, you should show him,
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THE WILD MAN WENT HIS WEARY WAY 128 POETA FIT, Must take what information heCan get, and look for no im-mature disclosure of the driftAnd purpose of your poem. Therefore, to test his patience —How much he can endure— Mention no places, names, or dates.And evermore be sure Throughout the poem to be foundConsistently obscure. First fix upon the limitTo which it shall extend : Then fill it up with Padding(Beg some of any friend): Your great Sensation-stanzaYou place towards the end. And what is a Sensation,Grandfather, tell me, pray ? I think I never heard the wordSo used before to-day : NON NASCITUR. I 2 9 Be kind enough lo mention one Exempli gratia? » !> And the old man, looking sadly Across the garden-lawn,Where here and there a dew-drop Yet glittered in the dawn,Said Go to the Adelphi, And see the Colleen Bawn. The word is due to Boucicault— The theory is his,Where Life becomes a Spasm, And History a Whiz:If that is not Sensation, I dont know what it is. Now try your hand,

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