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How Poetry Works

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Concrete Poems

In poems, you have stanzasit's like a poem's paragraph, ye. Or if you choose to break a sentence in the middle of a line that exces the name, that's called enjamment. And it's all part of like this whacky, crazy poetic structure world. But that's the thing. Most poem, most poets aren't breaking lines. There not doing injam ment a to make a picture. The poem of a windy river is like, typed in such a way that if you blur your eyes, it looks like a windy River. That's at's called a concrete poem, i believe. I think on the nose is another word

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