Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one

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I was searching for a short poem that encapsulates the love I have for my wife. When I saw this, I knew. My wife's birthday is in April. The double meaning of marrying an April girl really... Rhyme schemes and meters (the patterns by which syllables are stressed and unstressed in poetry) are hallmarks of the form and are especially prominent in formal poetry.

Baldwin, Emma. "What is a Poem?". Poem Analysis, https://poemanalysis.com/genre/poem/. Accessed 1 November 2023. Free Verse: This type of poetry utilizes the freedom of not following any particular structure or rhyme scheme such as other types poems. By not following a structure, it allows the poet to display his ideas without having the follow particular guidelines regarding structure and to instead rely on devices such as repetition and figurative language to emphasize the theme. An acrostic poem is a poem where the first letter of each line spells out a new word. These kinds of poems tend to explore a specific theme or topic, such as the seasons.

Although you will expect me to I was wiser too than you had expected For I knew all along you were mine This is when a word, statement, or phrase can have two or more possible meanings. In poetry, the poet often leaves the final interpretation up to the reader. It gives the reader something to consider or think about. Ambiguity in poetry also means there's lots for readers to come together and discuss. Enjambment One of the most fascinating things about love is that it can come in so many different forms — platonic, passionate, or even patronizing. Margaret Atwood unflinchingly lays out some of these in her poem ‘Variations on the Word Love’. 5. "The More Loving One" by W.H. Auden Were all stars to disappear or die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time. With leaves turning golden, nights drawing in and fires being lit, autumn is the perfect time to settle down in a comfy chair with some poetry for company. Here is a selection of our favourite poems about what John Keats called the ‘season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', including autmnal poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Robert Frost, Emily Brontë and Gillian Clarke. Masterpiece Generator refers to a set of text generator tools created by Aardgo. The tools are designed to be cool and entertain, but also help aspiring writers create a range of different media, including plots, lyrics for songs, poems, letters and names. Some generated content parodies existing styles and artists, whilst others are based on original structures.

One of Portugal’s greatest poets, Luís Vaz de Camões is known for his lyrical poetry and dramatic epics. ‘Love is a fire that burns unseen’ is an example of the former, reflecting his numerous turbulent love affairs and how each brought a complex fusion of pleasure and pain. 14. "Beautiful Signor" by Cyrus Cassells This is the endless wanderlust: dervish, yours is the April-upon-April love that kept me spinning even beyond your eventful arms toward the unsurpassed: A stanza is a group of lines separated from others within a poem. While a stanza isn't a poetic technique in and of itself, poets can use stanzas to create a unique meaning. Assonance The longest epic poems were even episodic in nature so that listeners who wandered in halfway through could still enjoy the episode they first hear. Tragedy: dark, sorrowful, and dramatic. Tragedies are usually based around human suffering, disaster, and death. They usually end traumatically for most characters involved. Sometimes there is a traditional tragic hero. Ex. Romeo and Juliet A motif is a recurring or central action or image that can be found in other works as well. For example, one of the most common motifs found in literature is a long journey. Onomatopoeia

20. "Married Love" by Guan Daosheng

Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds in different words that are close to each other. For example, might the light be in sight? Couplet