Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26112985-20160209031528/@comment-24101790-20160209041111

SnakeTongue237 wrote: -snip-

Don't feel too bad, I only learned that much because I was quite the purveyor of poop poetry when I was younger. A big trick I learned was to read the poem out to yourself and see how it flows. Does it come off as lyrical? Are there areas where it catches or you slip up while reading it aloud?

As for the rhyme scheme, imagine it like a conversation or song. Changing up the rhyme tends to cause hiccups in the pace of the poem. Best of luck, our standards for poetry have gotten a bit tighter over the years due to the fact that we actually get a few poems every week or so that tend to fall into some pitfalls of poetry. (Poetry pitfalls, the least dangerous sounding trap ever.)