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poetry - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com |
 | | It may use condensed or compressed form to convey emotion or ideas to the reader's or listener's mind or ear; it may also use devices such as assonance and repetition to achieve musical or incantatory effects. |
| | Because of its nature of emphasising linguistic form rather than using language purely for its content, poetry is notoriously difficult to translate from one language into another: a possible exception to this might be the Hebrew Psalms, where the beauty is found more in the balance of ideas than in specific vocabulary. |
| | Some classical poetry forms, such as Venpa of the Tamil language had rigid grammars (to the point that they could be expressed as a context-free grammar), which ensured a rhythm. |
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