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[Erthona]

NobodyNothing wrote:"And I do "questions" in poems sometimes. When you brought that up 'e' I noticed that I probably do that more than I should. It honestly just never came to me to do it any other way at the time I was doing it"

Using questions is more a rhetorical trope than a poetic one. You can use it in speeches to get the crowd fired up. In poetry it generally comes across as disingenuous because the reader cannot respond, and the answer is already known. I generally weed them out as I would any typo. A lot of times the line that contains the question can be dropped entirely, or at least turned into a statement. It is similar to using an inversion, as people often do in sonnets because of lack of skill. If it used to a purpose, with skill, it can be used, if used because the writer isn't skillful enough to stay with the meter except by using it, than no. In prose poetry, it can often be used if the speaker is talking to himself like.

"After my visit to the planetarium (sounds like sanitarium) I asked myself, why is space so black, and why do they not have a McDonald's on the moon? Such deep thoughts made my brain hurt, and then I heard them say, "It'll have to come out".

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