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• He interpolates another stanza, which has the effect of diluting the strength of the passage And for the tender mother Who dandled him to rest And for the wife who nurses Her baby at her breast And for the holy maidens Who feed the eternal flame To save them from false Sextus That wrought the deed of shame The whole of this stanza is bad;--the last four lines of it simply and purely execrable. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
• If not, what prevented them from doing such things if they had the ability 365-22] At first this stanza was written thus Some village Cato, who with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood Some mute, inglorious Tully here may rest Some Caesar guiltless of his country's blood It is interesting to notice that at his first writing Gray selected three of the famous men of antiquity, but in his revision he substituted the names of three of his own countrymen. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
• Here is a highly-applauded stanza, and very taking at first sight The night-dew of heaven, though in silence it weeps Shall brighten with verdure the sod where he sleeps And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls Shall long keep his memory green in our souls But it will not bear analysis. —  Gryll Grange
• He combines scents, weaving them into odorous melodies, with effects like those of the refrains of certain poems, employing, for example, the method of Baudelaire in L'Irréparable and Le Balcon_, where the last line of the stanza is the echo of the first, in the languorous progression of the melody. —  Figures of Several Centuries
• 74, 140, 182, 184, 187 Another important 6-line stanza is the tail-rime or rime couée_, a stanza much used in the Middle English romances and chosen by Chaucer for his parody, Sir Thopas. —  The Principles of English Versification

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