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The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

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H. P. Lovecraft
Age: 46 †
Born: 1890
Born: August 20
Died: 1937
Died: March 15
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Science Fiction Writer
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Rhode Island
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft
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Ward Phillips
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Richard Raleigh
Edgar Softly
Augustus T. Swift
Lewis Theobald
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Albert Frederick Willie
Humphrey Littlewit
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