ONE OF THE DEBITS
Rudyard Kipling's poem, "The Vineyard," included in his latest volume and Credits/** has drawn unfavourable comment not only for its "taunts across the sea/* but also for ita liberties with the laws of rhyming'. The poet is an old offender in this respect. A "Pall Mall Gazette” critic once called attention to his vaguries in "Recessional**:— And Rudyard, it is hardly fair, On us. who pay our school board rate, That "dies’* and "sacrifice** you air, And "lord** and "word" do perpetrate. A noet ought to "get the goose" Who’d rhyme the verb "to use" with "loose/* And All the world over, nursing their scars, Sit the poor fighting men, broke in our wars. provdkcd from "The Daily News" the retort that All the world over, writers of "pars," Wonder what Kipling will next rhyme with "wars/* In "The Vineyard** Kipling excels himself:— So he swiftly made his own Those last spoils lie had not won. Producing from the "Manchester Guardian" dp coeur . Now what do you think he’s gone and done? He rhymed ''own" with "won"! I really think that takes the bun.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 9
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188ONE OF THE DEBITS New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 9
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