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Originally Posted by HarryT
Writing "serious" books (philosophy, books about farming, tracts on religion, etc) in verse was common in the ancient world. Lots of example in both Latin and Greek. I agree that it's a shame it's no longer done - it's so much "classier" to write a farming manual in dactylic hexameter verse .
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right. metric and patterns help memorization
though poetry isn't about metric and rhymes
when I said poetry being from "the gut", I meant only the (largest) subgenre of lyrical poetry
hey, finally some nice discussion here about poetry. better than more lame series