Phonetic Poetics / Verse

Phonetic Poetics are concerned with how words sound when spoken aloud. Traditional poetic forms were often concerned with numbers of stressed and unstressed syllables, and rhyme. Assonance is a satisfying technique that echoes a vowel sound, as in Sylvia Plath's "Mushrooms": "soft fists insist on heaving the needles". 

Verse offers so much elite jargon that a longer treatment here is pending; we love jargon.

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