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what you need to understand is that poetry is artifice
it's really, really difficult to craft an essential poem. for the conveyance of ideas, even emotions, the essay form is almost always most appropriate
poetry is inherently about self-imposed limitation, form
that's not to say that there is an archetypal pattern, that everything should be in iambic pentameter or something
but that the form cannot be purely incidental, secondary to our childish vomitings
skilfull hard rhymes could result in a more sublime product and would be more truly poetic. they are poetically aspirational
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