Another wrote, “to credit it with fluency and grace,
Its fault is that it’s really so extremely commonplace.”
A third condemned it roundly as “A simple, shameless sham”
(Finding that alliteration often does for epigram).
And as John Jenkins wearily perused each fresh review,
He shook his head, and cried, “Oh, this will never, never do!”
Undaunted by catastrophe, John Jenkins tried again,
And wrote his second novel in a very different strain;
In one short month he finished what the critic at a glance
Pronounced a fine example of the latter-day Romance.