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4 STORYTELLING ELEMENTS TO USE IN YOUR POETRY

hen I was in college struggling to write any story longer than 20 pages, I turned to poetry to help me structure a novella. I wrote a 39-line sestina (a poetic form that follows a pattern of alternating the same six end words over six sestets and a concluding tercet). Without getting into all the

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