My rationale was, if you can enunciate densely rhymed verse, and understand the syntax, you can speak the language. |
The following weekend I burned the midnight oil translating one of the eclogues into rhymed couplets for the following week. |
Sonnet 126 is, unusually, a poem in six rhymed couplets rather than a sonnet proper. |
It is written in rhymed tetrameters, the most artless of English metres and quite unlike the majestic blank verse of Prospero the magician. |
His four-line verses or quatrains, each of two rhymed couplets, were written in groups of 100, known as Centuries. |
From the point of view of adequacy, it makes no difference whether we have before us a prose poem or rhymed verse. |