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Repetition, good bad or neither?


  • Judith Chandler
    Oct 19 1:09 PM
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    Do you enjoy poems that use a lot of repetition or even a little? I enjoy it myself.

    Here's an example from Old Poetry:

    Half a league, half a league,
    half a league onward.
    Into the valley of death rode the six hundred.
    Their's not to question why, their's but to do or die
    as onward they thundered.

    Lord Tennyson. Old fashioned, yes, but there is something about the repetion what makes it richer, in my opinion. Sorry, I've never been really good at analysing things.
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  • DeeCrepit
    November 9 ↑
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    Indeed, if major change in form or wording is "suggested" by editors, it is time to withdraw the poem.
    With changes it would not be "my poem" anymore.
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