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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia, indicating synchronization, was strongly affected by speaking verse.

Five minutes of reading rhythmic poetry aloud relaxes the mind better than deliberately slow-paced breathing.

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them? The benefits of reciting poetry were not clear to me as a schoolboy forced to memorize verse by Shakespeare or Victor Hugo and voice it verbatim before a strict teacher, in front of classmates eager to catcall when I floundered or forgot a line (or worse, when I had to admit I hadn't memorized the poem at all). But it seems that reciting, or even just reading........

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