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"I use the fewest words to say the most. I am measured in feet but I do not walk. I can last a thousand years without a single image. What am I?"

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Answer: A Poem. Poetry condenses maximum meaning into minimal words. Poetic metre is measured in metrical 'feet' — units of stressed and unstressed syllables. Some poems written thousands of years ago remain powerful today.

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