...354-357): Then, at the last, and only Couplet fraught With some unmeaning Thing they call a Thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the Song, That like a wounded Snake, drags its slow length along. The above sequence of iambic pentameters ends in the long (hexametric) alexandrine "That like a wounded...

...length makes it unpopular in English a feature captured in the Essay on Criticism hy Pope: A nvedless Alexandrine ends the song, / That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. >*.metrics. alexia >dyslexia. Algeria tpopulation in 1995 estimated at 28,513,0001 The official language...

...considered the line to be clumsy, illustrating it in his ESSAY ON CRITICISM thus: alienation effect A needless Alexandrine ends the song That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along The alexandrine after the pentameter makes the point, but Pope cheats a little by using monosyllabic words,...

...was so trim a boy. 63. ages . . . along: From Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, lines 356-57: A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. 64. "butchered . . . bolyday": From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV, Stanza 141. 65. it. . . Oliver:...

...have much to humble me. How profitable & comforting those services might be. May my Holy l.'ather i22 'A needless Alexandrine ends the song. That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along', from Alexander Pope's An essay on criticism (1711). 421 Matthew xiii. 25. 424 Galatians vi. 2. enabled...

...alone require, Tho' oft the Ear the open Vowels tire, While Expletives their feeble Aid do join. . . . A needless Alexandrine ends the Song, That like a wounded Snake, drags its slow length along. . True ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance As those move easiest who have learn'd to Dance....