Boadicea : poem in galliambics by Tennyson. Boadicea or Boudicca was an English queen who died in the year 60 while leading a revolt against Roman rule.
... within the rich quantitative variety of ancient languages, of which an equivalent in English can only be found by the aid of rhyme. No competent critic would declare Tennyson's absurd experiment in Boadicea an equivalent to the rushing, stumbling & leaping metre of the Attis with its singular & rare effects. A proper equivalent would only be found in some rhymed system and preferably I should fancy in ...
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