Therefore, some verse might be hidden in other prose works by Anderson. One clue is whether the rhythm of the text seems to be curiously regular. I thought that I was starting to find something like this in Mother Of Kings (New York, 2003) but am not sure. A passage of verse might not have the same number of syllables in each line and, if, in addition to this, there is no rhyme, then it is difficult to see where the lines might end.
As with the other works mentioned here, I have been trying to reproduce the apparent rhythm of some dialogue in Book Two, Chapter XVIII of Mother Of Kings by re-arranging the lines but, so far, have not done this convincingly. Yet some of the dialogue continues to look as if it can be re-arranged:
" 'She came with him.
" 'They sought to me.
" 'I made them welcome
" 'And have lodged them
" 'As was fitting.' " (p. 161)
I would be interested to know if any other readers can comment on this.
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