THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

The Brown House
Cliff Drive
Canford Cliffs

27th January 1929

Sunday

In case you are hung up for a metre I believe that for a slow serious song (e.g. The proposed new duet for Empress & Tor¹) heroic couplets would be good – or at all events rhyming lines of 10 syllables – possibly a stanza of 6 lines – many of the Elizabethan songs are like this, but doubtless you have finished by now – in which case ignore this.  Here till Feb 4.
RVW

Miss Evelyn Sharp
24 John Street
Bedford Row
London  WC1    [Jan 27 1929]

1. i.e.  for the Empress and Tormentilla in The Poisoned Kiss.