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{104} This type of verse was rarely attempted by Longfellow, but he chose it most appropriately for
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Seaweed and in some degree succeeded. Poe himself in his waywardness could not adhere to it when he reached it, and after giving us in the original form of
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Lenore, as published in
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The Pioneer, perhaps the finest piece of lyric measure in our literature, made it over into a form of mere jingling and hackneyed rhythm, adding even the final commonplaceness of his tiresome
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Lowell did something of the same in cutting down the original fine strain of the verses beginning
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Pine in the distance, but Longfellow showed absolutely no trace of Poe, unless as a warning against multiplying such rhythmic experiments as he once tried successfully in
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Seaweed.