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There are answers before mine; so I will only add that one other use of a poem or rhyming verse (which I did not see in those answers) is as a clue to some mystery. This can represent a riddle dire...
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2019-12-19T22:13:42Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T11:16:56Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
There are answers before mine; so I will only add that one other use of a poem or rhyming verse (which I did not see in those answers) is as a clue to some mystery. This can represent a riddle directly, or it is a riddle _disguised_ as poem, like a love poem or an elegy on a gravestone. I cannot recall exactly, but I believe Dan Brown has used this device in his religious mysteries.
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2019-03-12T12:31:44Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 1