Merci, Liz
you're quite right - it does end up more Hopkins-like than Miltonic, it
started out with _the idea of Milton _ and went from there. As for internal
rhyme - oh yes, definitely.
Hopkins did regard the Milton of 'Samson Agonistes', that strange poem that
manages to be simultaneously pyrotechnically brilliant and morally
repugnant, as a precursor of sprung rhythm.
Best
Dave
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Subject: Re: Biography Project: Week Five - Dave's piece
Well I think you suceeded! Except I thought it more Hopkins than Milton
seemed a kind of sprung rhythm in't - and internal rhyme.... maybe I need to
read Milton again!
Liz
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