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Rh diction a directness and energy of movement such as he has left no example of.

But Browning continues:

—stanzas in which the artificial form of verse seems merely to incommode that vigour and directness, so eminently characteristic of Browning, both when he writes poetry and when he distorts prose into its semblance and caricature.

Take another instance of this abuse, from Wordsworth:

These two stanzas enchant the ear, and kindle the mind to joyous receptiveness. But alas! the poet continues much as the genius of the Salvation Army adapts the tune of a successful music hall song to other words.

Hears not also mortal life?

Hear not we unthinking creatures

Slaves of folly, love, and strife—

Voices of two different natures?

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