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and similarly in a rhythm of nearly the same
kind?” “Quite so.” “But what of the
other type? Does it not require the opposite, every kind of pitch and all
rhythms, if it too is to have appropriate expression, since it involves
manifold forms of variation?” “Emphatically
so.” “And do all poets and speakers hit upon one type or
the other of diction or some blend which they combine of both?”
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