... . The Spoon River poems are strikingly similar to those the Greeks used when they were celebrating their dead. Masters also draws on the structures of conventional sonnets, as well as iambic tetrameter or pentameter. The specific structures that Masters uses serve a higher purpose than just a way of writing the poem, they bring more to the poem because of their conventional uses. Masters ... ...

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