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Octosyllabic verse, whether trochaic, as here, or iambic, as in Scott's "Lays of the Last Minstrel," is by far the easiest of all measures to write; and the fact that "Hiawatha" is unrhymed made the American's task greatly easier than that of the Scotchman.
Hiawatha; a poem, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by John Rea Neill. 1856
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