"End rhymes are not enough. Every word-sound in a poem should find an echo in another, neighbouring word's sound to achieve what Ezra Pound called melopoeia. (This is something like what the Welsh call Cynghanned.)"

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Source: ANNE STEVENSON “A RELATIVE STRANGER\”

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