Category: Vol.2: Working with Pope
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The Rape of the Lock—Canto II
Ferrick Gray — No-one can dispute the fact that Pope was the master of the riming couplets. He wrote most of his work in what we may now call heroic couplets which are written in iambic pentameter. As anyone who has written in this form will attest, there are certain times when a variation must…
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The Dunciad—Book I—Verses 59, 81, 87, 91 & 121
Ferrick Gray — Volume 2, Issue 1 of Working with Pope continues with the metrical analysis of The Dunciad. This issue looks at verses 59, 81, 87, 91 and 121 from Book I.