I read Don Leon
the day that the book arrived. It is a superb work that should be
more widely known. The primary author is a skilled craftsman: the
meter of the heroic couplets tends to be regular, but strong
variations are used for rhetorical focus. These include
/ x x / and / / at line opening
x x / / or / / x x and / / / or x x x within the line.
Within
the line x x / / or its reverse are generally the strongest
standard variations in blank verse. He also handles rhyme with
genius. The long central section on sexual hypocrisy reminded me
of Swift, Dryden and Pope in its precision, contempt, saeva indignatio and satirical point.
Steven J. Willett