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: so have I seen a Rose newly springing from the clefts of its hood , at first it was fair as the Morning , full with the dew of Heaven , a Lambs fleece ; when a ruder breath had forced open its virgin modesty , dismantled its too youthful and unripe retirements , began to put on a darknesse , to decline its softnesse , the symptomes of a sickly age ; bowed the head , broke its stalk , at night having lost some of its leaves , all of its beauty , fell into the portion of weeds and outworn faces . Observe how each bracketed clause is incomplete without the closing clause, which contains the main verb ''fell''. Observe also how the several clauses in the sentence play against one another, reinforcing each other with Parallel structures and internal Assonance . A period opens like a collapsible telescope, each phrase developing out of the preceding one: "Aretino prospered, living from hand to mouth as a hanger-on in the literate circle of his patron, sharpening his satirical talents on the gossip of politics and the papal curia, and turning the coarse Roman pasquinade into a rapier weapon of satire, until his sixteen ribald Periodic sentences are common in Greek and Latin writers such as Cicero , who is generally considered to be the Western world's master in this rhetorical device. English writers whose works are famous for their well-crafted periodic sentences include:
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