Poetry

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Reading vertically reveals the hidden subject (8)
• Italian room where the verses reside (6)
• Four walls for a stanza to live in (8)
• A rhyming pair that often settles the score (7)
• A massive journey told in thousands of lines (4)
• Asking for hands when you want the whole person (10)
• The basic unit that keeps a poem walking (4)
• The steady pulse of a rising heart (6)
• Drinking a vowel to save the meter (7)
• A somber song for those who can no longer hear it (5)
• One verb to rule two different nouns (6)

Down

• The first eight lines of a Petrarchan problem (6)
• Two short steps followed by a giant leap (7)
• A series of same-sounding starts (12)
• The clicking and clacking of hard final sounds (10)
• A lyrical gift for the bride and groom (12)
• An internal echo of hollow vowels (9)
• Malayan echo where the second becomes the first (7)
• A lyrical toast to someone or something grand (3)

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