and line lengths, the poem is in fact a crude, swollen sonnet, exactly half as long again as a conventional one, with a turn at line twelve instead of line eight and a coda of three lines rather than two. And it is in this coda that [Edwin] Muir attempts to enlist his God--the grace of poetry perhaps--in the struggle against more grudging words. A Righteous Man
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: A Righteous Man
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