Iain  Lennon

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That’s why poets are so fond of words like ‘Oh’ or ‘and’. It’s not that they keep saying the word in real life, it’s just that you can throw it in anywhere. ‘And thou art dead, as young and fair’. It’s not that Byron usually started sentences with ‘and’, he just knew the quickest way to make an iambic tetrameter.
The Elements of Eloquence: How To Turn the Perfect English Phrase
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