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1 After most poems in this selection you’ll see a label that identifies the poem’s form. You’ll learn
more about these forms in “Ryan O’Brian’s Guide to Poetic Forms” at the end of the selection.

t started with a rhythm,
2
Ia rhythm and a rhyme.
It wouldn’t let me stop,
it ate up all my time.

Rhythm

3 I was seized by a rhythmical beat.
It was something I could not delete.
I went crazy with rhyme,
It just gobbled my time,
Had me clapping and tapping my feet.

LIMERICK
seized If you were seized
by an idea or feeling, you were
suddenly overwhelmed by it.

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