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| | A '''poem''' is a usually short written piece belonging to the literature of [[poetry]]. Generally speaking, a poem is text with an uneven right margin. | | A '''poem''' is a usually short written piece belonging to the literature of [[poetry]]. Generally speaking, a poem is text with an uneven right margin. |
| | There are many different sorts of poems – from formal [[sonnet]]s to [[haiku]]s to experimental [[free verse]]. | | There are many different sorts of poems – from formal [[sonnet]]s to [[haiku]]s to experimental [[free verse]]. |
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| − | Here is a sample sonnet, based on William Shakespear's sonnet #18.
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| − | Shall I compare thee to Wikipedia?
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| − | Thou art more lovely and less biased:
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| − | Rough vandals do attack thy darling site,
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| − | And liberal's accounts hath all too short a block:
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| − | Sometime too slow the act of reverts shines,
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| − | And often is CP's gold complexion dimm'd;
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| − | But every atheist debate always declines,
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| − | By reason or logic's faithful course untrimm'd;
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| − | And conservatism's eternal summer shall not fade
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| − | Nor lose ground to those atheists and liberals;
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| − | Nor shall Darwin brag thou wander'st in his shade,
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| − | When in eternal lines to time it growest:
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| − | So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
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| − | So long lives Conservapedia and this gives life to thee.
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |