Kind Are Her Answers — Page 46
These verses are a more subtle experiment in metre by the musician and poet, Campion, than even the following, Laura, which he himself sweetly commended as ‘voluble, and fit to express any amorous conceit.’ In Kind are her Answers the long syllables and the trochaic movement of the short lines meet the contrary movement of the rest, with an exquisite effect of flux and reflux. The ‘dancers’ whose time they sang must have danced (with Perdita) like ‘a wave of the sea.’