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1 <text> 2 <head> 3 <its:rules xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="2.0" xlink:href="domain7xmlrules.xml"/> 4 <meta name="DC.type" content="Poetry literature"/> 5 </head> 6 <body> 7 <p> 8 <span> 9 A poem is a composition written in verse (although verse has also been used for epic and dramatic fiction). 10 </span> 11 <span> 12 Poems make use of the aesthetic qualities of language to suggest differential meanings and to evoke emotive responses. Poems rely heavily on imagery and metaphor; they may have a rhythmic structure based on patterns of stresses (metric feet) or on patterns of different-length syllables (as in classical prosody); and they may or may not utilize rhyme. 13 </span> 14 </p> 15 </body> 16 </text>