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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.
 
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==

Revision as of 02:02, December 19, 2008

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 sonnets to haikus to experimental free verse.

See also