Chants usually are accompanied by music especially RAP and JAZZ chants. When they do a chant, they usually combine clapping, stomping, dancing, acting and singing while doing it. Poems are recited but doesn't have clapping, stomping or any kind of movement used in chanting. Poems are recited by the speaker being heard and there isn't any background music while reciting the poem.
Similarities between them
Their similarities between them is the way they use words, and the timing on how they say it. Or the concepts of the poem or chant like both of their themes are about Earth.
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