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These are very useful notes. It doesn't look like they address this one: FIRST VOICE But why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?' SECOND VO
by StrictDabbler 7y ago
These are very useful notes. It doesn't look like they address this one:
FIRST VOICE
But why drives on that ship so fast,
Without or wave or wind?'
SECOND VOICE
'The air is cut away before,
And closes from behind.
When I was memorizing this poem with my friends in high-school this was a high point. All as one, we'd say "And closes from BEE-HIHND," rhyming it with "wind" and then breaking up in gales of laughter.
- yesenadam 7y agoWell, the lines With sloping masts and dipping prow, As who pursued with yell and blow have the notes "prow, the Classical equivalent of the Teutonic bow, rimes with blow only to the eye. Such are called printers' rhymes." Did you manage to memorize it?? It's long! I chose Kubla Khan, more sensibly. About the spelling rime he says "Rime. — This word has during the last three centuries been usually but improperly spelt rhyme, probably through confusion with rhythm" which seems right e.g. https://www.etymonline.com/word/rhyme https://www.etymonline.com/word/rhyme