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## Poetic function

The poetic function is associated with the way speech reflects itself. In normal speech, this function is virtually non-existent because all messages refer to the object. One more particularity of the poetic function is that it applies only to the external communication system. For instance, the poetic function of meter in verse only refers to the the external communication system5.11.