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The science of English verse (1880)
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Verse is a set of specially related sounds, repeated aloud.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
February 3, 1842
Died:
September 7, 1881
(aged 39)
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