Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in th…

Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2006). Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. ✨ Margaret Atwood (2006). Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

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