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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: new-fangled restriction of thine, of terminating in accurate and
similar rhymes. They are a constraint on thy flow of fancy, and
make thee resemble a man dancing in fetters."
"The fetters are easily flung off, at least," said Blondel, again
sweeping his fingers over the strings, as one who would rather
have played than listened to criticism.
"But why put them on, man?" continued the King. "Wherefore thrust
thy genius into iron bracelets? I marvel how you got forward at
all. I am sure I should not have been able to compose a stanza
in yonder hampered measure."
Blondel looked down, and busied himself with the strings of his
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