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No; poetry can rhyme but doesn't have to. Poetry is a way of expressing something that is designed to evoke strong feeling or convey powerful ideas, and/or that is structured differently somehow from the 'normal' way of expressing things (which is called 'prose'). It is typically broken into 'lines' rather than paragraphs, although this is not a hard and fast rule. 'Rhyme' is when words or lines end in the same sound or set of sounds, like 'Obama' and 'yo mama'. Older poems and poetry written for children is more likely to rhyme than modern adult poetry, but there is no 'rule' about whether or not rhyme should be used in poetry. In fact, poetry is in some senses characterized by breaking the 'rules' of standard composition -- to deliberately break a 'rule' of language when writing in order to create a particular effect or to convey a particular idea is to use 'poetic license'.

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