Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With so — Alexander Pope

Then, at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought, A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.

An Essay on Criticism, II, l. 154

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