229. What is the greatest difficulty met with in reading or declaiming poetic selections?
In giving it that measured flow which distinguishes it from prose, without falling into a continued monotone.
230. What is a good method to break up this habit?
Reduce the selection to prose, and deliver it in an earnest, conversational style.
231. Why should there be a short pause at the end of each line of poetry, even where the sense does not require it?
In order that the measure of the poem may be more perceptible to the ear.
232. What is it that constitutes the melody of a poem?
The pauses and accents chiefly.
233. What rule should govern the reader in the use of pauses and accents?
Use variety, and not make them too prominent.