 | Leon Golden - 1995 - 424 lehte
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 | John Barnard - 2003 - 562 lehte
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 | Ian Ousby - 1996 - 452 lehte
...alexandrine, and Pope vividly demonstrated the reasons for its relative unpopularity among English poets: 'A needless Alexandrine ends the song/ That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along'. The monometer (onefoot line) is rare, like the heptameter (seven-foot line), also called a 'fourteener'... | |
 | James Schuyler - 1997 - 364 lehte
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 | Peter Kemp - 1997 - 512 lehte
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 | Mary Oliver - 1998 - 212 lehte
...'sleep.' Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. Leave such to tune their own dull rhymes, and know What's roundly smooth, or languishingly slow; And... | |
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whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep,' The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 
