To rhyme or not to rhyme...?

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Re: To rhyme or not to rhyme...?

Post by Amagine »

I prefer to rhyme my poems and my children stories too. I was told that many people and publishers don't like rhyming stories as much any more. So I've been trying to write without rhyming but its hard. It's just natural for me to rhyme.
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Post by Ceciltrixiedom »

Nowadays, freeverse is rampant so it is okay if it does not rhyme. As long as the poet express his emotions in it and readers appreciate the craft, it has no problem with rhyming anymore. It is on the way the poet writes the poem. The simple the poem is written the more appreciation it gets from the readers.
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If it rhymes, it better be so well-written that I don't notice the rhyme-scheme at first. Nothing sounds worse to me than strained, forced rhymes.
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Post by DoubleG »

I prefer rhyme, it is the poetic form which transforms the language to art! Free verse is indeed free from thought, and free from effort, and lies within the realms of blogging!
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I enjoy rhyming poetry personally. I understand the art in both forms, but for me it is more enjoyable if it rhymes
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Post number #16 by Charles 30 may 2017,
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I like poems that are rhymed because they create some kind of beat or musical aspect .
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Post by TheSeelieCourtJester »

That depends on what the poet's intentions are. I'm a poet who has written both traditional (rhyming), free-verse, and prose. Personally, I enjoy prose, because I get all the sensory details. However, for both traditional and free-verse, I need to pay a bit more attention to them. It isn't the detail that strikes me, but what that means in the poet's perspective. In terms of writing, I prefer prose and free-verse over traditional. Traditional is beautiful on its own, but with free-verse and prose, I can be more flexible with my word choice and ideas.
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Post by asiangirl22 »

Most of the the poems I've written use rhymes. Though cheesy, it does sound better. I've written some poems too that don't rhyme, but still appealed to my targeted audience. I think it doesn't really matter if it rhymes or not, what matters is how you use words to move your readers.
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Post by Vivian Paschal »

Doesn't really matter which as far as it passes the message and employs literary devices. Rhyming poems are usually nice as they have a nice feel and they flow well. But sometimes, in a bid to rhyme, writers tend to use words that do not convey the message they want to convey and it kills the poem.
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sometimes , to rhyme , produces a childish look
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Post by geoffrey ngoima »

I think it depends on the mood and the whatnot. A poem can be wholesome without rhyme, it just has to have balance and harmony of words/sentences, and of course some sublime message.

-- 12 Jul 2017, 03:02 --
Vivian Paschal wrote:Doesn't really matter which as far as it passes the message and employs literary devices. Rhyming poems are usually nice as they have a nice feel and they flow well. But sometimes, in a bid to rhyme, writers tend to use words that do not convey the message they want to convey and it kills the poem.
I couldn't agree more. I've experienced this.
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To rhyme!! It's more enjoyable. It just sounds better
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As long as the poem's message was good and was delivered very well it shouldn't matter if it rhyme or not.
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Post by Cutienerdy21 »

For me, I think the poetry is good if it flows naturally and has a rhythm or anything that makes it special. Most often, the rhyming ones got it but there are also poems that doesn't rhyme that just makes its own song in your mind.
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Post by Major »

I wrote a poem, and it did rhyme,
Because I took the care and time,
To make the stanza and the metre,
Nice and short and also sweeter,
And then when near the end I saw,
I could not write a little .... extra bit that made no sense!
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