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Question: Anyone know a poem that uses two or more synonyms in one line!?
Or they could be close to each other, it doesn't really matter!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


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What an interesting question!. Synonym hunting has proven a surprisingly interesting mode of basking in the quality of favourite poems!. I went through quite a lot of Shakespeare and others before lighting on two easy ones!. Shorn/shaven is a pair in Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, stz!. 8!. Grave/stern is almost a pair too in the same stanza:

Then this ebony bird, beguiling my sad fancy into smiling
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven!.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore!.'

If that doesn't do it for you, this one was a direct hit!. The Thorn is famously Wordsworth's worst poem!. Rock/stone is an easy pair in the beginning of stz!. 2:

Like rock or stone, it is o'ergrown
With lichens to the very top,
And hung with heavy tufts of moss,
A melancholy crop:
!.!.!.

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