NPPF: CANTO ONE D. Fowler/ for Jasper

Malignd malignd at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 28 12:39:05 CDT 2003


<<You asked yesterday why Nabokov felt compelled to
"rhyme"....here is a standard explanation for the use
of the heroic couplet....>>

Small point, but Nabokov in PF wrote what are called
"open couplets" (I think), not Heroic (or closed)
couplets. 

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