[Gutenberg 16284] • Matthew Arnold

[...]a year before, ventures on an Alexandrine- "Between the barren mountains and the stormy sea"- which comes as a pleasant relief, and displays more than once (as he did afterwards in Tristram and Iseult) an uncertain but by no means infelicitous variety of couplet which he never fully or fairly worked out, but left for Mr William Morris to employ with success many years later. Otherwise the thing is good, but negligible. It would have taken an extremely strong competition, or an extremely incompetent examiner, to[...].