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A poem is a composition written in verse (although verse has been equally used for epic and dramatic fiction). Poems rely heavily on images, precise word choice and metaphor, they can take the form of measures consisting of patterns of stresses (metric feet, or taking of samples of different length syllables (as in classical prosody), and they may or may not also use rhyme. One can not characterize exactly easy to poetry. As a rule, but poetry as a form of literature makes a good use of the formal properties of words she uses – the properties of the spoken or written form of words, regardless of their significance. Meter depends on syllables and rhythm of language, rhyme and alliteration depend on the sounds of words.

Poetry, perhaps before the time of other forms of literature: early known examples include the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2700 BC), parts of the Bible, the surviving works of Homer (Iliad and Odyssey) and the Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata. In crops, primarily on oral traditions the formal characteristics of poetry often have a mnemonic based function, and important texts: legal, genealogical or moral, may, for example, first in verse form.

Some poetry uses specific forms: the haiku, of Limerick, or the sonnet, for example. A traditional haiku written in Japanese must be something with nature, contain five p.m. Onji) (syllables on three lines in groups of five, have distributed seven and five, and was also a kigo, a word indicating a season. A Limerick has five lines with a rhyme scheme aabba and line lengths of 3,3,2,2,3 stressed syllables. It is traditionally a less reverent attitude towards nature. Poetry is not to a formal poetic structure as a “free verse”

Language and tradition dictate some poetic norms: Persian poetry always rhymes, Greek poetry rarely rhymes, Italian or French poetry often does, English and German poetry can go either way. Perhaps the most paradigmatic style of English poetry, blank verse, as in works by Shakespeare and Milton example, consists of unrhymed iambic pentameter. Some languages prefer longer lines, some shorter. Some of these conventions arising from the simple installation of a particular language, vocabulary and grammar into certain structures, rather than in others, for example, some languages have more rhyming words than others, or generally have more words contained. Other structural conventions come about as the result of historical accidents, where many speakers of a language preference to combine good poetry with a verse form of a specific skilled or popular poet.

Work for the theater (see below) traditionally took verse form. This is now rare outside opera and musicals to say, though many that the language of the play is poetic in itself.

In recent years, digital poetry has arisen that uses the artistic, publishing, and synthetic qualities of digital media.