In this way rhythm and rhyme are partly a means of holding our attention, because we willingly follow the poem read, and partly they produce in us a blind consent to what is read prior to any judgment, and this gives the poem a certain emphatic power of convincing independent of all reasons.
Hortik erritmoa eta errima, alde batetik, gure arretaren lokarri dira, proposamenari gogarago jarraitzen baitiogu, bestalde, bere bitartez gugan judizio ororen aurretiko onarpen itsu bat sortzen da proposatuarekiko, zeinaren bitartez horrek pertsuasio-indar enfatiko, arrazoi guztiekiko independentea hartzen baitu.