Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-09-26
FANCIES IN VERSE.
CURIOUS METHODS OF RHYMING
WHICH ARE THE FASHION.

Hfs su2ria fH.al
A Last Of Singular Little Songs Con-
strueted After the Methods of the
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Some of our readers of literary turn may /
be interested in the new forms of verse. |
which really are immensely old. but which. |
like many old things adopted into the new,
are lust now quite the fashion among poets
or poetasters Many of these forms, with
their curious repeated rhymes. and half mad
Interviewing of rhymes, originated with tho
troubadours and trouveres and Provencal
singers generally; but they have been
changed in process of growth till their orig
ipators would hardly know them OF these
forms. adspted. at any rate. from the old
French. those enioying most prominence to-
day are the baIlade. the chant royal. the
kvrieIle the nantomips the ropdel rondean
o,d -o,1,aIo, tho ,,losa tho S,Stir. tba t,,n-
lat the vi1Iaralla the Law and the v;raI,i
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and keens To two rhymes, the first nair n
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: tall its story In five lines. and carrv the re-
naot so essilv as tn he charming and M
,, strainad. the first one nrintad in nodar,
! ENGLISH was nv Mr. Robert Bridges tn
v;IlapaI1p of which snecias Mr. Fdmun,