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When you open a book of poetry, it may strike you that poems are unusual things. For instance, look at this poem by A. E. Housman:
This time of year a twelvemonth past, When Fred and I would meet, We needs must jangle, till at last We fought and I was beat.
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© 1995 Richard Gill
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Gill, R. (1995). Reading, thinking and writing. In: Mastering English Literature. Palgrave Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13596-7_1
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