>>24553720
He does have a control on the syntactic smoothness of language, but he has no ear for the sound of poetry. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing but at some points in his poems it becomes embarrassing.

E.g. picrel. The last couplet
>and teach vain wits a science little known,
>T’admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
The last line is so sonically clunky that it’s a complete anticlimax