The Rationale of Verse by Edgar Allan Poe

Author:Edgar Allan Poe [Poe, Edgar Allan]
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Pease porridge hot – pease porridge cold –

Pease porridge in the pot – nine days old.

Now those of my readers who have never heard this poem pronounced according to the nursery conventionality, will find its rhythm as obscure as an explanatory note; while those who have heard it, will divide it thus, declare it musical, and wonder how there can be any doubt about it.

Pease | porridge | hot | pease | porridge | cold |

Pease | porridge | in the | pot | nine | days | old. |

The chief thing in the way of this species of rhythm, is the necessity which it imposes upon the poet of travelling in constant company with his compositions, so as to be ready, at a moment’s notice, to avail himself of a well understood poetical license – that of reading aloud one’s own doggerel.

In Mr. Cranch’s line,

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