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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson: will seem. But there are further niceties. In lines two and
four, the current S is most delicately varied with Z. In
line three, the current flat A is twice varied with the open
A, already suggested in line two, and both times ('where' and
'sacred') in conjunction with the current R. In the same
line F and V (a harmony in themselves, even when shorn of
their comrade P) are admirably contrasted. And in line four
there is a marked subsidiary M, which again was announced in
line two. I stop from weariness, for more might yet be said.
My next example was recently quoted from Shakespeare as an
example of the poet's colour sense. Now, I do not think
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