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The poem is a presentation of the characteristics of a great poem. Basically, it is an instructional poem
about writing a poem. Like the first poem we focused on, it is presented in a direct manner wherein it
already stated its main point on the first line clearly that a poem must be magical. Then other
characteristics in connection with being magical followed. Notice that the structure of the poem has the
traditional rhyme scheme of two consecutive lines: A, A, B, B, C, C, D, D, E, E, F, F, G, G. The imageries,
choices of words and figures of speech suggested literal meanings. The structure and the technique
made the poem easy to decode. The poem turned out to be an informative one because of the over-all
way of writing it