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Lines Printed Under The Engraved Portrait Of Milton, In Tonson's Folio Edition Of The Paradise Lost, 1688

John Dryden 1631 (Aldwincle) – 1631 (London)

Three poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn.
The first, in loftiness of thought surpassed;
The next, in majesty; in both, the last.
The force of nature could no further go;
To make a third, she joined the former two.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AABBCD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 259
Words 47
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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John Dryden

John Dryden was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made Poet Laureate in 1668. more…

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