One cup to the dead already:
Hurrah for the next that dies!
CHAPTER XI
HOW TO READ POETRY
In order to avoid the “singsong” habit, common to so many while reading poetry, let us remember to make but a very delicate pause at the end of each line. Of course, if the sense requires a decided pause, one should not fail to make it. Browning’s “My Star” is a splendid example of where but a very slight swelling of the voice is necessary to indicate the end of each line.
All that I know
Of a certain star
Is, it can throw
(Like the angled spar)
Now a dart of red,