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The dog is no longer running.
Garret Schuelke
SourceLicence:Public domain
The dog is no longer running.
Three short lines, and almost nothing happens. A dog that was running is not running anymore. What makes the poem work is the phrase "no longer," which tells us the running used to be true. We are looking at a change, and the poem never says what caused it.
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