The answer (APEX) is: "By the way, this difference between us remains much the same to this very day."
Tom heard that Terry <span>had written </span><span>an article for the newspaper.
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It increases the pace of a poem, as it makes the reader read each line without a pause. This makes the poem more fast-paced. This in turn gives the poem a sense of urgency and tension, and sometimes a more cheerful, joyful mood, as these are things that are associated with fast-paced speech.