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The reference to Pope puzzles me rather ~ surely he was a pentameter man? I found your discussion of Marvell very illuminating, Nicholas. As to Swift's "endstopped" lines: Cadenus felt within him rise Shame, Disappointment, Guilt, Surprize; He knew not how to reconcile Such Language, with her usual Style ~ Of course, he often does endstop lines, even on that page, and I opened the volume at random, so this just might be an exception, but my recollection is of tremendously varied colloquial force, in the expression & the rhythm. Martin