Carman can make beautiful line-melody, line-harmony when he wishes to do so; and he is a master of alliteration, quite the peer of Tennyson or Swinburne. For instance, these alliterative lines:—
The gold languorous lilies of the glade.
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Burying, brimming, the building billows.
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Silent with frost and floored with snow.
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And softer than sleep her hands first sweep
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And down the sluices of the dawn.