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What does the term refrain refer to in a song or poem

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Refrain. A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout apoem, usually after every stanza
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The term refrain -in a song or poem- refers to a verse (or a line, or a group of lines) that appears where it divides into different sections.

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It is a literary device (usually used in poetry) that repeats, at regular intervals, in different stanzas. In music, the refrain differs from the chorus because the refrain is incorporated lyrically and musically within the verse itself.

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