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Many, if not most, of the standard poetic techniques used in English -- things that fall under the general categories of rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance, etc. -- are based in trying to ensure that a poem will have a certain music when read aloud.

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  • But they melted away in silence; and then the dreamy quietness of the hour stole over Olive's sense She thought of many things--things which might have been sad, but for the slumberous peace that took away all pain. —  Olive A Novel
  • Among other things were the original telegrams written by the Kaiser in his own handwriting, facsimiles of which appear in my earlier book, "My Four Years in Germany," and the treaty which the Germans tried to get me to sign while they held me as a prisoner. —  Face to Face with Kaiserism
  • That's just what I complain of Do you complain?_"--she drew it out as for surprise: she couldn't have imagined such a thing To me her things are awful. —  The Finer Grain
  • He could say no more, for the sight and scent of apples, jelly, roast fowl, home-made pastry, and other things was almost too much for him I expected it, dearie," said old Nell, extending her withered hand to the boy as he set the basket on the table. —  The Coxswain's Bride also, Jack Frost and Sons; and, A Double Rescue
  • Don't you see that the things are all aboard, and we'll be ready to start in five minutes, and you sitting there with your neckcloths off Mr Park gave a slight sneer when he spoke of neckcloths_, as if he thought, in the first place, that they were quite superfluous portions of attire, and, in the second place, that having once put them on, the taking of them off at night was a piece of effeminacy altogether unworthy of a Nor'-wester Charley and Harry needed no second rebuke. —  The Young Fur Traders
 

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