Read the excerpt from “I Am Offering This Poem.”It’s all I have to give,and all anyone needs to live,and to go on living inside,when the world outsideno longer cares if you live or die;remember,I love you.

The repeated word “and” at the start of lines 2 and 3 creates a noticeable beat as the poem is read aloud. The lines are not all similar in length, and the excerpt does not follow a clear rhyme or stress pattern. So the rhythm is created by repeating “and.”

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