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Poetry should be read aloud whenever and wherever possible. Short poems, read aloud.
I discovered this poem when reading about metre and rhythm in contemporary poetry (The anthology 'Staying Alive' gives an excellently easy to digest short essay 'The Sound of Poetry' in its appendix.) It's written in unrhymed blank verse, and it's structure conveys something of the rhythm and regularity of the plough.
Louise reads poems
Poetry should be read aloud whenever and wherever possible. Short poems, read aloud.