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| | Poem Resource Page - pome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18) |
 | | Poetry can be differentiated most of the time from prose, which is language meant to convey meaning in a more expansive and less condensed way, frequently a pome on simile using more complete logical or narrative structures than poetry does. |
 | | By contrast, the chief device of Biblical poetry in ancient Hebrew was parallelism, a rhetorical structure graduation pomes in which successive lines reflected each other in grammatical structure, sound structure, notional content, or all three; a verse contest for short pomes form that lent itself to antiphonal or call-and-response performance. |
 | | In preliterate societies, poetry was frequently employed as a means of recording funny pomes oral history, storytelling (epic poetry), genealogy, law and other forms of expression or knowledge that modern societies might expect to be handled in prose. |
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