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Devices used by poets. 1. 

Poets use a range of musical and figurative devices to achieve their effects. Some of these effects relate to the rhythm and metre ( meter) of the words. In poetry, the meter (or metre) is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse.  The study of the rhythm, stress, and pitch (or intonation) of speech is… Continue reading Devices used by poets. 1. 

Published Feb 9, 2017
Categorized as Poetry, Writing Tagged meter, Poetry, rhythm

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