Originally popular in French literature and first heavily used in English around the turn of the 20th century, James Joyce created one for Stephen Dedalus in The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Wendy Cope uses it to describe an incidence of adultery between an unnamed mother and her milkman in "Reading Scheme".  Originally popular in French literature and first heavily used in English around the turn of the 20th century, James Joyce created one for Stephen Dedalus in The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Elizabeth Bishop uses it in a poem where she claims the titular concept "isn't hard to master",  as did Theodore Roethke in his "The Waking". Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night" is probably the best-known example of, FTP, this 19-line poetical form with seven stanzas, the first six of which end with one of two rhyming refrains.
Wendy Cope uses it to describe an incidence of adultery between an unnamed mother and her milkman in "Reading Scheme".  
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