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... Real poetry's a kind of song, normally with a set rhythm and formal rhymes, for people who can't sing, play no musical instrument, and don't know how to read music or compose on five printed staves. But it's designed to be memorable, and maybe to evoke a tear, a frown or a smile. ... And English is such fun to use, a rich, unmatched vocabulary with plenty of potential redundancies (it's a German dialect overlain by French patronage) and lots of choices of stress ... I'm a retired professor of marine biology, having authored hundreds of scientific articles and edited or written several books on algae, and even one on shit. But if you want to know how and why I go in for poetry, check among the following pages. ...
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