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This same alertness of mind and sense shapes the poems themselves. The verse is only incidentally mimetic. The metre of 'From the Wave' suggests the rhythm of the sea but contains it; 'Moly' itself, the monologue of one of Circe's pigs, beginning as little more than a series of grunts, acquires as it develops the precision and symmetry of a sequence of epigrams. The forms used are forms of the conscious intelligence, their movement informed, but not dominated, by the energies they describe: 'with a learn'd skill' they ride free of the wave.
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