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Can someone explain to me what exactly poetry is? I was trying to read Paradise Lost the other day, but it doesn't rhyme, yet it is supposed to be a poem. What is the point of a poem if it doesn't rhyme? What separates something from being a 'poem' from just being a string of words?
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>>9165462
yikes
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Nigger if you took all of poetry ever written in history, maybe 5% of it would be rhymed poetry
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>>9165462
>2017
>cults of white people be worshippin dead niggas without flow
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>>9165486
poetic devices, huh?
What are some of the best ones?
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>>9165506
Oldest is parallelism
It's one of my favorites and is frequently the first one poets pick up intuitively
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>>9165462
Poetry is just as much about word structure and meter
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>>9165462
English is rare insofar as it values rhymes because of their difficulty. Most languages, to my knowledge are synthetic making rhymes incredibly easy to make, and, thus, are less valued.
Meter, then, becomes the mark of poetry.
>>9165506
I fucking love chiasm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiastic_structure
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>>9165758
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiastic_structure
holy shit that looks cool as fuck
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