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A Glance At The History Of European Poetry Is Enough To Inform Us That Rhyme Itself Is Not Indispensable. Latin Poetry In The Classical Age Had No Use For It, And The Kind Of Latin Poetry That Does Rhyme - As For Instance The Medieval Carmina Burana - Tends To Be Somewhat Crude Stuff In Comparison With The Classical Verse That Doesn't.
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A Glance At The History Of European

James Fenton
A Glance At The History Of European Poetry Is Enough To Inform Us That Rhyme Itself Is Not Indispensable. Latin Poetry In The Classical Age Had No Use For It, And The Kind Of Latin Poetry That Does Rhyme - As For Instance The Medieval Carmina Burana - Tends To Be Somewhat Crude Stuff In Comparison With The Classical Verse That Doesn't.
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