Had stood erect as man."
[17]. I would, however, warn the beginner not to adopt the license of loose rhyming, which in Barham is lost sight of amid the brightness of the wit.
[18]. This and similar words cannot (see Chap. VI.) stand at the end of serious verse. In comic verse it is different.
[19]. I have reprinted in the Appendix so much of the introductory matter of "The Young Poet's Guide" (on which this treatise is founded) as appears to me to contain hints that may be read with profit, even though it differs slightly from my views.
[20]. The absurdity of talking of perfect and imperfect rhymes is only equalled by that of speaking of good grammar and bad grammar. A shilling is a shilling—what the vulgar call "a bad shilling" is no shilling at all.—T.H.
[21]. In words ending in "y," with an accent on the antipenultimate, there should be no attempt to make "single" rhymes.—T.H.
[22]. The union of sound alone constitutes rhyme. You do not match colours by the nose, or sounds by the eye.—T.H.
[23]. But decidedly ought not to be.—T.H.
[24]. Here we have the old blunder of taking the licenses of poets as laws for versifiers.—T.H.
[25]. Why "pëa"?—T.H.