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How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Andrew Lang
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If you are not satisfied with these simple ways of not succeeding, please
try the Grosvenor Gallery style. Here the great point is to make the
rhyme arrive at the end of a very long word, you should also be free with
your alliterations.

LULLABY.

When the sombre night is dumb,
Hushed the loud chrysanthemum,
Sister, sleep!
Sleep, the lissom lily saith,
Sleep, the poplar whispereth,
Soft and deep!

Filmy floats the wild woodbine,
Jonquil, jacinth, jessamine,
Float and flow.
Sleeps the water wild and wan,
As in far off Toltecan
Mexico.

See, upon the sun-dial,
Waves the midnight's misty pall,
Waves and wakes.
As, in tropic Timbuctoo,
Water beasts go plashing through
Lilied lakes!

Alliteration is a splendid source of failure in this sort of poetry, and
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