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World Service,13 Feb 2001,13 mins

Choosing Words for their Sound Rather than Sense

Working Out the Words

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Chiming rhymes can help you understand the sentiment of a poem more clearly than a straightforward sentence. Louis MAcNeice said that when he had chose between sound and sense, he preferred sound.

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