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Everyone I know, except for my language arts teacher who is in charge of the Writer's Club at my school, says that peoms aren't poems until they rhyme. I really don't understand that. i haven't written a good rhyming poem, and I think my poems are fine without them rhyming every two lines. Does anyone else have anything to say on the topic?
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Poetry is hard to define but it does not require rhyme.
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A major part of poetry is the sound. The point of rhyming is to improve the sound of the poem. It also forces one to work at writing the poem--i.e., none of that emo nonsense, "My girlfriend broke up with me, I cut myself, pain, pain, pain". It's a lot harder to write that in rhyme. For every good poem you can name that doesn't rhyme, I guarantee I can name three good ones that do. On that note, I'm fine with form poetry that doesn't rhyme--Haiku, Tanka, some Ghazal forms, Sestinas, the like. You still have to think in order to write them. I don't care for freestyle because more often than not, it's just an excuse to be lazy. Some truly profound thoughts have been expressed in freestyle, I'm sure. I just can't recall reading any. :-) Also--sure poems are fine without rhyming every two lines. Rhyming every THREE lines is a much more interesting convention, if I may say so myself. :-) ~Bitter Irony
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Am I making any sense? Pleases someone tell me...
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Honestly, I dont think poetry even has to be poetry to be poetry. Now before you kill me for that ambiguous statement; I swear I will explain. I've read some poetry that reads like prose, it's words nicely put together, but there's no flow or pizaaz. I've also read prose that makes me feel like I've been crucified by the beauty of a sentence so masterfully put together that it must be poetry. Just a thought. And my friends tease me by saying 'you know, Jo, I'ts just not poetry if it doesnt rhyme.' Gets me EVERY TIME
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yeah, a lot of people think poem must have rhyme but I think the rhyme isn't important if there's an interesting "plot" behind.
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