Grief of Mind by Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

Seems to be. Why, do you find hidden meaning in it?

It is certainly a neat literary decvice! The structure, I mean.

I am imagining De Vere finding great pleasure in perfecting it.

Perhaps it assauged his grief?

There is a body of opinion that claims that de Vere wrote some of the plays attributed to Shakespear


http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/deverebio.htm

Isn't there a body of opinion that says almost EVERYONE wrote Shakespeare?

I like de Vere a lot.

True, but de Vere is a serious candidate. He has a body of published work (poetry) and is known to have been a playwrighte although those have supposedly been lost.

Hmmm - need to read more de Vere poetry - but I ain't seeing it.

I wonder if the original question here has been answered?

Nive - the structure of the poem (doubtless there is a name for it) is what stands out - the contrasting sense of the same lines at beginning and end - the way the words at the end of one line begin the next - it is a right little, tight little, Island - and cleverly done.

Were you hoping for more than this?