Louis Untermeyer - Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs...

Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. A matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

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Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. A matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.

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