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Sumner makes two additional changes in this stanza, both terrible..
Sumner makes two additional changes in this stanza, both terrible.
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The third, "Farewell, O sun, Arcadia's clearest light", is the first rhyming sestina in English: it is in iambic pentameters and follows the standard end-word scheme, but rhymes ababcc in the first stanza (the rhyme scheme necessarily changes in each subsequent stanza, a consequence of which is that the 6th stanza is in rhyming couplets).
There is little other sound play in this stanza.
In this stanza the fruits are still ripening and the buds still opening in the warm weather.
In reading this stanza we enhance our own experience of the qualia of fruit and fruitfulness.
In my opinion, this stanza is metaphoric for the future.
There is so much to admire in this little stanza.
The book contains this stanza: "And in the beginning was love.
This stanza is absent in the Hauksbók manuscript of the poem.
According to Koch's reconstruction, this stanza was deliberately added to the text in Strathclyde.
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