ABSTRACT

To those who have been long accustomed to the swing of rime and the see-saw of couplets, the irregular verse, or measured prose, in which this very poetical poem is composed, will appear to have been adopted rather for the accommodation of the writer than of the reader—rather to elude the abecedary drudgery of spelling ban, can, dan, fan, &c. bare, care, dare, fare, &c. till the desiderated syllable arrives, than to invite from the second gate of the palace of pleasure a new charmer of the ear. …