Poetry Rules - Yay or Nay
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Re: Poetry Rules - Yay or Nay
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Me too. The free flow of the mind through my pen speaks a lot
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Yay. Poetry is not poetry without some kind of rhyme or repetition because that is what draws out emotion, as in music. Even good prose writing incorporates features if poetry. The best books I read are keeping me reading due to the repetition of words, the variety in sentence structures which mimic a flowing river with stops and starts.
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I personally write poetry how I feel like it at that moment. Sometimes that means it's a free-form poem, sometimes it follows a certain style. It's up to you.
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In my experience, free verse is often something that newer poets get into because they find meter and rhyme schemes frustrating, and then they end up producing that would be better described as abstract prose. Some of the greatest poetry in the English language was written in free verse, but invariably by people who learnt the craft writing structured verse.
I implore everyone interested in poetry to genuinely attempt structured verse, and not just toss it aside "because my feelings don't fit in a rhyme scheme". That's an excuse, nothing more.
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