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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

— H. P. Lovecraft

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.

— X. J. Kennedy

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

— John Keats

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

— Howard Nemerov

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

— Stephane Mallarme

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

— John Drinkwater

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

— Victor Hugo

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

— X. J. Kennedy

It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.

— John Drinkwater

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

— John Keats

✗Opposing Perspectives

To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

— Florence King