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Figures of speech and thought guide the interaction between poet and reader.

Poems may be epic, lyric, dramatic, or a mixture of the three. Most poems find a way to defy these conventional categories.

The lyric poem began as a work to be performed, to be sung or read aloud. Over time, the lyric transformed into a work for the page, for the reader...

The poem is something to look at, as well as to read and recite.

Rhythm is a form cut into time, a combination of stressed and unstressed syllables that creates a feeling of fixity and flux, of surprise and inevitability.