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"Humdrum and Harum-Scarum: A Lecture on Free Verse" is an essay on poetic form by the poet Robert Bridges, first published in November 1922 in both the North American Review and the London Mercury.[ citation needed ]
In it Bridges details his views on the limitations of free verse. [1] He argues that free verse, lacking the constraints of rhyme and metre, becomes too self-conscious. [2] He argues instead for syllabic verse in the tradition of John Milton. [3]
Bridges explains what he regards as the 'adverse conditions' that free verse imposes upon a poet: