Another Poem About Poetry
by Fred Graves
 
What makes a poem 
        Is it the rhyme? 
Is it a pattern of the syllables? 
        A developed sense of time 
Allowing division of text into stanzas? 
        a 
form 
which the poem 
adheres 
        to, creating 

specified 
shape 
for 
viewing by the reader? 
        or is a poem 
defined by what 
it has to say 
        In its compacted way?
 
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