. Hill's Manual of social and business forms: a guide to correct writing .. . -cited before the performance begins. Epilogues.—The Epilogue is a short poem,which frequently reviews the principal inci-dents of the play, delivered by one of theactors at the close of a dramatic performance. Impromptus.—An Impromptu is a poetical com-position, made at the moment, without previousstudy. I Acrostics.—An Acrostic is a stanza of severallines, the first letters of which, taken in theirorder from top to bottom, make a word or sen-tence. Friendship, thou rt false ! I hate thy flattering smile ! Return to
. Hill's Manual of social and business forms: a guide to correct writing .. . -cited before the performance begins. Epilogues.—The Epilogue is a short poem,which frequently reviews the principal inci-dents of the play, delivered by one of theactors at the close of a dramatic performance. Impromptus.—An Impromptu is a poetical com-position, made at the moment, without previousstudy. I Acrostics.—An Acrostic is a stanza of severallines, the first letters of which, taken in theirorder from top to bottom, make a word or sen-tence. Friendship, thou rt false ! I hate thy flattering smile ! Return to me those years I spent in vain. In early youth, the victim of thy guile, Each joy took wing, neer to return again — Neer to return ; for, chilled by hopes deceived, Dully the slow-paced hours now move along ; So changed the time, when, thoughtless, I believed Her honeyed words, and heard her syren song. If eer, as me, she lure some youth to stray, Perhaps, before too late, he 11 listen to my lay. * See chapter on Epitaphs. THE POET S ASSISTANT IX MAKING RHYME. 365.
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