A watertight poem
Poets choose to compose rhyming verses for a variety of reasons, but few would ever consider rhyme as an instrument of survival. Rhyming couplets are easier to memorise than most other types of verse, but to think of rhyme as something meant to preserve the integrity of a poem is not quite common. And yet, this is what Dante thought when he invented one…
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