| User | nameless_nobody | | Topic | HELP!!!!! | | Message | i need help from someone out there. i got loads of great ideas for poems but i can only use a 2/4 rhyme or whatever you call it. i rhyme line 2 with line 4. it means all the lines have to be short and snappy for it to flow. it means i cant use any big words so sound like a 3 year old. it means all my poems sound like shit. can someone please teach me how to use better rhymes or how not to rhyme. i love poems that dont rhyme but i dont feel comfortable writting them. please help before i turn another 1st class idea into a 4th grade poem. |
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| User | Mister Fizzle | 2004-09-07 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | set rules for yourself. map out a ryhme scheme before you write anything. say
"abbaaccd" just for arguments sake.
Then set about writing a poem that adheres to whatever scheme you chose. Try to keep all the lines of a similar spoken length. This is just one way to get out of the habit of writing the same way all the time, or what I like to call "The Too Short Complex"
heh heh
good luck
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| User | purple dinosaur | 2004-09-06 | | | Subject | untitled | | Message | my advice is to try to get rid of the rhyme. it sounds like rhyming just isn’t helping you get a good rhythm in your poetry. poetry that doesn’t rhyme really is very easy, just make it sounds like it’s going somewhere, leading you to the climax of the poem. you need a good rhythm for that, which can be hard to find but if you don’t your poem ends up really sloppy and doesn’t sounds great. try and make all the lines about the same length unless it’s for effect, a lot of the time someone will combine what should be two lines into one and then they have a normal-length second line because they think it’s effective. it can work, but only in certain cases. just use your judgement. practice makes perfect. try and break that old rhyming habit, and either use free-form or come up with a different kind of rhyme scheme. but if you’re going for sounding less childish i wouldn’t go with quatrains or limericks or that kind of thing, they can get very childish sounding.
~anabel |
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