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 filipinawritergirl123Topic: why does everyone say it's not a poem until it rhymes?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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 Midnight In EdenThey're often people who are quite ignorant of the fact that poetry can be free verse and some of the best poetry is free verse.Poetry is hard to define but it does not require rhyme.
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Miriam DoylePoetry is anything that isn't written in continuous prose and has similar syllables in each line or verse. It doesn't have to rhyme, but depending on what style of poem you're writing it does, like Limerics, for example.
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first-casualty-of-warI very much disagree, I think poetry without rhymes is indeed poetry. Everyone has their own opinion, though.
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| Bitter IronyTo the contrary, I don't know too many people who do say it's not a poem unless it rhymes! Plenty of good poems don't rhyme--and plenty of bad ones. I have a habit of finding the bad ones. 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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| Writers block anon.Personally, I think that poetry can be as free or as regulated as the author wishes it to be. I don't think there should be rules and regulations ALL of the time- (I'm not saying that rules are a bad thing. They are really good, but sometimes you just get people who are sticklers for rules and they foce them onto everyone else which isn't a good thing :( ) Am I making any sense? Pleases someone tell me...
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filipinawritergirl123you're making perfect sense.
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 Johannas mirrorHonestly, 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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| kloun doll 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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