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Poetry Requires Musicality
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Poetry Requires Musicality

That which is often passed off as poetry is something else.
Richard Kuslan
May 09, 2024
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Poetry requires musicality.  What many pass off as poetry is not poetry, but something else, because its writer has evaded his poetic duty by eliding at least one of its requirements -- form, meter and rhyme; but every example lacks musicality.   

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