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I've always had a hard time retaining content from poetry and I finally realized why.

I'm good with rhymes, anagrams, songs, and such but when I hear them or read them, I hardly ever remember the words.

The reason I miss them is because my brain auto-completes the lines. Taking context and style into account, I generally know what word is going to be rhymed at the end and I then just throw in words that fit the meter and general style and tone of the poem.

I have difficulty remembering them because I have only the first rhyming word and the meter, all the rest of the text is lost and I lack sufficient data to recreate the string from memory.

I realized this only because I was reading a translated version of Faust and many of the rhymes are bad or use archaic wordings and meanings and throw off my parser.

So now I'm analyzing for a different way to read verse so that I might better recall it.

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Date: 2006-09-08 05:36 pm (UTC)
zeeth_kyrah: A glowing white and blue anthropomorphic horse stands before a pink and blue sky. (Default)
From: [personal profile] zeeth_kyrah
Structural, rather than contextual, analysis tends to help me remember such things.

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Date: 2006-09-08 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] perlandria.livejournal.com
Ah! Is THAT why you are so good at coming up with songs.

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