Month: June 2024
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The Dunciad—Part 2: Book I—verses 15, 17
Verse 15: 15 Laborious, heavy, busy, bold, and blind,16 She rul’d, in native Anarchy, the mind. The temptation in most readings knowing Pope’s form is to immediately place a metrical accent on every second syllable assuming that it is likely iambic pentameter. With this closed couplet, it goes well to a point, in this case…