高中二年级英语(人教版)上册 Unit 4 Integrating Skills 2

　　THE BIRTH OF MODERN POETRY

　　When asked about poetry, most people will say that a poem is a text that has rhythm and rhyme. Famous are the lines by William Blake, which have clear rhythm and rhyme:

　　Tiger, tiger, burning bright,

　　in the forest of the night.

　　Other people will add that poems must have a certain form, with a fixed number of lines and a fixed rhyme pattern, such as a sonnet. With rhyme, most people mean the rhyme of sound of words at the end of the lines. It is also true that much of the classical poetry that we have looks like that. Except for some short songs and poems included in his plays, all of Shakespeare's greatest poems are sonnets.

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