In some cases, as software and browser changes render original works obsolete, the centre will be translating poems into newer formats.
Pupils would be read poems by their teachers, learn simple poems by heart and practise recitals from the age of five.
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The poems will be featured on posters at stations throughout the Valley Lines network.
The poems will be published alongside 1, 300 others in the first ever complete edition of Kipling's verse on 7 March.
An anthology of the new poems will be published in March 2013.
Unlike the crown, which is awarded on the Monday of eisteddfod week for poems in the free metres, the chair is reserved for poems in cynghanedd, the ancient system of strict poetic metres which requires poems to be written in a complex mix of consonantal harmony, stress, rhythm and rhyme.
However, when a succession of his poems turn out to be adaptations or loose translations of Petronius, Sappho, Pliny the Elder and Boethius, you may find yourself hankering after an original voice even one as extravagant as Whitman's.
Pupils will be judged on how accurately they remember poems and how well they perform them to an audience.
Remembered poems are often described as a "consolation", be that on a dull bus journey or during times of adversity.
They will be reminded of it again when they place these essays beside a new edition of the poems.
The most famous was Thomas Chatterton, an 18th-century writer who forged poems that he said were written by one Thomas Rowley, a medieval monk, and which continue to be much admired.
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