Questions

I’ve heard that rhyming in poetry is kind of dead, I guess, and ***?ople like to read more free verse now. Is this true? I always write in rhyme. It’s just more comfortable to me. And having to twist words around so they fit in a rhyme better is just ***?n to me, and gets me thinking more creatively.
- LiviaAnn

You have been writing poetry ever since that first task in your writing class when you were in school. You are familiar with the rules regarding writing poetry, correct? Are there regulations? Fine, if you recurrent the poetry debates across the Internet to the extent that a few do, you’d locate that there are lots of amateur poets who obstinately claim that there are no regulations for writing poetry and if anyone even recommends reading poems or manuscripts on poetry, lots of the amateur poets will create a suspicious front. In the opinion of many it seems to swing passionately towards the opposition. You have to be familiar with the regulations earlier than you break them; in any case that’s what it’s always said.

It is known that writing a verse in iambic pentameter is a skill that has been hidden in the crypts of the resurgence, but accepting it, together with the several other dying stopped forms of poetry, is a dominant tool as soon as writing that prosy current piece. Being a good poet demands a complicated understanding of the method in which language functions its limits into a reader’s sense of right and wrong. A poem is a medley of sounds, syncopations as well as imagery. All of the small remains of a poem ought to work mutually in a combined fashion to conclude in something new and refreshing.

Well regarding new and refreshing, you might be unsure how understanding such old features of poetry such as rhyme and meter might assist a modern poet craft new refreshing poems. It is all in relation to the sound and the novelty of it. Yet scientists rest on the shoulders of persons before them. You are not required to manage an ideal rhyme or a considered foot in a poem to be leaping from the motivation of Shakespeare’s sonnets, but including those rhymes and rhythms tottering in and out of the crumples in your brain will mail an incredibly subtle vibration of sound in the course of your personal pieces.

In summing up, study, study, study, know the regulations, and subsequently break the regulations. Decency helps you satisfy breaking them.

Here are a few references to assist you along the path:

-Manuscripts:

The performance of Poetry: by Robin Behn

Writing verse: by Robert Wallace as well as Michelle Boisseau

A Poetry Manual: by Mary Oliver

-Websites:

http://www.poetry-portal.com/poetry.htm

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/poetry-explication.html

www.poetrymagic.co.uk

www.poetrylessons.org


- Alien

I like free verse type poetry, mostly, but rhyme is good too.
If you could give me a few details about your favorite that would be great! (Sorta the general feel of it)
Thanks!
- Claire

Lets face it I’m breathtaking and I would love to write a poem in honor of my beauty. How do I go about writing a poem? Do poems have to rhyme? For a peak at my beauty feel free to view my questions I’m too lazy to post a link to my beauty on this question…….. If you would like to submit a poem in honor of my beauty I’d so e-love you. But it must be original because I am original.
- Beautiful

I need to write a haiku poem about myself. Can that be possible, since what i know is that haiku should only be about nature? Can i use any syllabication in each of the three lines? I am planning to do haiku with rhyme, but i read somewhere that haiku shouldnt rhyme. Should it be iambic? Please help me.
- k.secretalias

I have visited sites and I still can’t write free verse poetry. It’s not helping me; I know I have to rhyme, but just giving me examples won’t help me. Can someone give me some tips on how to write free verse poetry-I’m supposed to be writing about a life story.
- Timemaster

What is the name normally given to two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme?
- janehe916

I am a songwriter and musician. I have seen some of the poems in here and they are really good song material. I mainly write Christian/Spiritual songs and wondered if you guys could give ,me a few tips and ground rules you use when writing poems, i.e do they have to rhyme, where do you go for inspiration, do you look at other poets work for inspiration.etc

Thanks Guys,,,,,love your poems
- Andy

I write a lot of non-rhyming “poetry”, but what would it really be called?
- Phoenix: Princess of Cupcakes