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Beginning to write a poem is hard for a lot of people, but it is possible if you have the right tools, the right frame of mind, and plenty of patience. Maybe you could take a course on how to write poetry, read up on poetry in a book, or try and try again to create your own piece of art, what ever it may be, just write. You can dig deep inside, your heart, your mind; your past experiences and always come up with something that you could place down on paper. It is just like telling an old friend about being in high school, only you are writing about it in a poetic form.
There are many poetic forms, which seem to take place when you write poetry. A lot of children seem to start writing poetry in one form, which is the Rhyme form. The Rhyme form does not have a specific length, but seems to take on four sentences each paragraph. For an example, you may have heard this one: Roses are red. Violets are blue. Sugar is sweet. And so are you. As you can see from this Rhyme form that blue rhymes with you. Both words are at the end of each sentence; they are only a sentence or phrase apart from the other. Another example is I can feel your love. It holds me tight. All through the day, and all through the night. In this poem you can see that tight and night rhyme. Rhyming in this sense seems to take on within the second and last sentences of the paragraph. As you can see with the second example the third and fourth sentences are combined. A writer would then still move the fourth sentence below the third.
Some rhyme poems tend to rhyme all four sentences such as this: My grandfather is old. Or so they may say. He is rather bold. He still likes to play. This is a bit awkward, but I am trying to show you an example. As you can see old rhymes with bold and say rhymes with play. This type of rhyme is harder than the rest, and can come out to sound pretty dull and unintelligent. You may want to avoid writing such poems as that example.
Another example of a form of rhyme is one that rhymes the first with the last sentence. For instance Just the touch of your hand, makes me feel your trust. You’ve always longed for my understanding, and I gave it to you freely. Will you always want to be with me? I have always wondered if what you’re really feeling is lust. In this example you will see that trust and lust rhyme and that they are the end of the first and last sentences.
Here I will take you into a type of poetry called a Haiku. What kind of language is that? You may wonder, well I will begin to tell you that a Haiku was created back in the XVI century. This form of poetry is mostly used with people in Japan. A Haiku usually is generated in length of up to three lines. To write a Haiku you must express a moment, sensation, impression or drama of a specific fact of nature. For example wind like tunnels in my mind, takes away my secrets and turns them to happy dreams. Another example is the mind is a blowing leaf, searching every day for a place to lay its head. The last example of a haiku that I will show you is Celebrate life’s challenges give yourself a push and fly the wings of a bird. In each example you can find something of nature, delivering a moment or sensation that connects to a human.
The Free verse is very easily created. Some Free Verse type poems may have rhyme to them; some may not. The general and only rule of Free Verse is to compose without attention to conventional rules of meter. Free Verse was created by a group of French poets in the late 19th century. This form of poetry has no length at all. Free verse is like the Rebellion State of poetry; having no rules, no length. Personally, I choose this form the most out of all of them. I can get my thoughts down on paper and not have to worry about rhyming or making my point clear in three lines. For Instance, here is a piece from a poem titled The Blood Woman by George McBeth: The clean room is the clean page is the cleared theatre where the nun intoning her requiem wilts into light. My pencil is broken. Here is the needle, the Blood-Woman. Here is an example from the same poem where he rhymes a part of it, but not the rest: Music comes from the fire: it burns in a world of wires. I hear the organ paw through the mass, the Christian death of Socrates. The man of wisdom stepped in the blood-flow. In this part of his poem you can see that fire rhymes with wires, although wires is plural and fire is not.
The last form of poetry is a Sonnet. A Sonnet is generally a lyric poem of 14 lines containing a formal rhyme scheme, expressing different aspects of a single feeling, mood, or thought, sometimes concluded in the last lines of the poem. There are two main forms of Sonnets: the Patriarchal, or Italian, and the English, or Shakespearean.
The English sonnet was developed by William Shakespeare and by Amoretti in 1595. This form is divided into three quatrains; each rhymed differently, with a final, independently rhymed couplet that makes an effective, unifying climax to the whole. The rhyme scheme is a b a b, c d c d, e f e f, g g. For example (a) Why must I walk (b) In the depths of your soles. (a) I listen to you talk. (b) Your shoes are full of holes. (c) I wonder if you even know (d) that your shoes are falling apart. (c) I am guessing so, (d) since you gave them to me from the start. (e) But why would you do that? (f) Why? My friend (e) Your acting like a cat (f) being sneaky and riding this till the end (g) You laugh at me as you open your pop (g) I look at you and instantly know our friendship has got to stop.
The Italian sonnet consists of an eight-line stanza, six-line stanza. The octave has two quatrains, rhyming a b b a, a b b a, but avoiding a couplet. The first quatrain presents the theme, the second develops it and the last three lines bring the whole poem to a unified close. For instance (a) Caught in her fury (b) She drives me to see (b) everything I can be (a) Just for her own glory, (a) Make it for her sake (b) Maybe I am going insane (b) but who is she to blame (a) For my life I will take. This continues to have it’s a b b a, a b b a melody to it.
Writing poetry is one of the human arts. Poetry has been here to tempt you, and to have you fall into its delightful claws. There isn’t a blink in time where you have never been captivated enough not to fall into at least one poem. Take the time to read a few poems here and there. You will be amazed at how relaxing and mind craving it is. You may even grab your own thoughts and begin to write a poem yourself, after you read several. Poetry is kind of like a chain reaction; it makes you think and makes you want more. Sometimes your own poetry can do the same thing to you depending upon how well you write. Many poets in time didn’t start off writing so clearly, so intelligently. They had to master their poetry just like anyone else. It takes time, it takes practice, it takes learning about it; understand what you are going to do. Not just what you are going to write about. Relax, clear your mind of worries, lock or block out everything else around you and begin to write.
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