poetry notes

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What is poetry?
- short description of something or an event
- captures a moment; "snapshot"
- rhyme/pattern/repetition
- emotion
- "deeper meanings"
- 5 senses
- rhythm/beat (meter)
- pre written language
        - Oral tradition
        - used it to make it easier to remember
- music -> form of poetry
- stanza: grouping of lines

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