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Glossary
poetry
Subject:
- English First Additional Language
- English Home Language
a literary genre consisting of an arrangement of meaningful and musical words. Most poems take the form of a series of lines separated into groups called stanzas. These can be rhyming or non-rhyming and often contain metaphor, alliteration, assonance and other figures of speech. A poem is usually fairly short and has the ability to say much in few words. Sometimes the rules of grammar may be stretched in poetry.
