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 What is refrain ?

Refrain is a phrase or a line that is repeated again and again, word to word, in order to create an effect of regularity in a stanza of a poem. Usually a single word is used as a refrain. 

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repeating of same line in poem

as generation may come and go in brook poem

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 A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after each stanza.

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To abstain from an impulse to say or do something

Eg.. I refrained from telling him what i thought

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