A POEM AND A PICTURE
sir,-I was delighted to read in a recent issue a delightful sonnet by Ronald Buchanan. It was ironically entitled "Love Sonnet." I have read it three times, but each time I have been painfully aware of the loss of the "iambic pentametre" in the first four lines of the poem-four accents instead of five. The 10 lines following in the Shakespearian form of the sonnet are perfect in rhythm, form and cadence-so much so that one almost forgives the lapse in the first four lines. While I am about it, I should like to thank you, Mr. Editor, for The Listener’s wonderful reproduction of the Madonna’s Head from Michelangelo’s "Pieta." To all lovers of beauty among your many
readers this must be a joy untold.
A.
E.
GUNTER
(Palmerston N: orth),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 253, 28 April 1944, Page 7
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136A POEM AND A PICTURE New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 253, 28 April 1944, Page 7
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