&glosstext=<b>RHYTHM:</b><br><br>Most people think that rhyme is what makes poetry different from ordinary speech, but many poems don't even use rhyme! What makes poetry different is the rhythm in the language of the poem.<br><br>The important thing is to trust your ear and listen to the flow of words in the poem. Some lines have a fast rhythm or pace like the following lines from Seamus Heaney's 'Mid-Term Break':<br><br>		The <b>ba</b>by <b>coo</b>ed and <b>laugh</b>ed and <b>rock</b>ed the <b>pram</b> <br><br>The opening lines of Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce et Decorum est' on the other hand, are slow and heavy, emphasising the tiredness of the soldiers as they walk through the mud of no-man's land:<br><br>		<b>Bent doub</b>le, like <b>old beg</b>gers <b>un</b>der <b>sacks,</B><br>		<B>Knock-kneed, cough</b>ing like <b>hags,</b>we <b>curs</b>ed through<BR>				<b>sludge</b>