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There is a natural physiological tendency to pronounce in one breath successive groups of rhythmic feet, and the rhythmic content in the average length of breathing can only be called a verse.

— F. S. Flint

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My own unryhmed cadences , and those of other writers are a reversion to the real English tradition of Cynewulf.

Otherworld Cadences (1920)

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

The point is that any piece of Impressionism, whether it be prose, verse or painting, or sculpture, is the record of the impression.

The poem, a harmonious flow of nuances, demands a musical rhythm, Vers libre.

Swinburne gave the coup de grace to English rhyme.

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