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The Words For Poems
The words for poems are not chosen as they are for expository prose,
The form will take is usually not their poet's first thought...
Typically, he begins to put ideas or feelings into words,
Some poems, though, begin with a prescribed form...
To start this way may seem humdrum and mechanical compared with being inspired...
There are times when beginning with a form is there best one the only way
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