“There is no absolute virtue in iambic pentameter as such.. however well they may be done. There is no immediate virtue to rhythm even. These things are merely a means to an end.”

— Edward Storer

'Essay on Imagism' (appended to 'Mirrors of Illusion', Sisley, London) 1909

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