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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? |
| | + | Thou art more lovely and less biased: |
| | + | Rough vandals do attack thy darling site, |
| | + | And liberal's accounts hath all too short a block: |
| | + | Sometime too slow the act of reverts shines, |
| | + | And often is CP's gold complexion dimm'd; |
| | + | But every atheist debate always declines, |
| | + | By reason or logic's faithful course untrimm'd; |
| | + | And conservatism's eternal summer shall not fade |
| | + | Nor lose ground to those atheists and liberals; |
| | + | Nor shall Darwin brag thou wander'st in his shade, |
| | + | When in eternal lines to time it growest: |
| | + | So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, |
| | + | So long lives Conservapedia and this gives life to thee. |
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| | == See also == | | == See also == |