human
Coleridge, who had not the slightest suspicion of the existence of metre in the dramatic prose, makes the following just remarks in a note on Fletcher's Custom of the Country:--
gpt
In all comic metres the gulping of short syllables and the abbreviation of syllables ordinarily long, by the rapid pronunciation of eagerness and vehemence, are not so much a licence as a law--a faithful copy of nature.
human
Written in the fervour of his youthful imagination, in a high poetic strain that wanted metre only to become a lyrical poem.