How does the poem's form relate to its meaning? Cite evidence from the poem in your response.

Poetry, unlike expository writing or even prose, is primarily impressionistic. Its meaning is more subjective and therefore the formal aspects of a poem serve mainly to contribute to its subjective experience and as such rarely give defined meaning independently.

Form gives structure to meaning. Stanzas serve to group ideas together and the size of each stanza guides the digestion of the poem's content. Stanza breaks can also give emphasis to the final line of a stanza. Line breaks tell the reader where to pause. Rhyme schemes and consonance/assonance affect the experience of smoothness and coherence of the poem's content, and can serve to group or emphasize certain lines, words or ideas. Line indents/shorter lines give emphasis to those lines.

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Cite evidence from the poem in your response. I don't know what poem so can't

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