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How are poetry and short stories different? How are they similar?

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DIFFERENT: While a short story is usually written in recognizable sentences, a poem is composed of lines, which may not observe the usual grammatical rules.

SIMILAR: both could be said to have brevity, a poem uses such brevity in the confines of a much smaller collection of words, and in a structure chosen by its writer; whereas the short story uses brevity in the context of a word limit

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