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An Impartial Spectator Mr. John Russell, the United’s clever satirist, has composed the following lines concerning the controversy over regular metre lately waged through the pages of The Looking Glass, The Lake Breeze, and the Conservative: Metrical Regularity; Or, Broken Metre. Dear Youth, if you would be a poet, Pray study this, and see you know it: With careful rhyme and one smooth metre, Your poem can’t but be much neater. Should you prefer to rhyme in anapaest, Convinc’d that such conveys your fancy best, Change not the form, nor try heroic lines, Howe’er your fleeting mood yo …
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