Five Ways to Produce Better Poetry

Five Ways to Produce Better Poetry

It is a lot that can be said approximately poetry. There are many feedback, fancy terms, as well as other schools of thought on this issue.

I consider that coming up with good poetry, similarly to form of art, relies upon two major elements - the quality of this communication itself, together with the technical skill that the parts are put together.

This post discusses technical issues only. But these are often times overlooked, and when you'd put them to use, you can actually take a mediocre poetry and turn it into a must-see. I've seen it happen many times.

Here are some ways to write better poetry:

1. Verses flows better if it has a rhythm. Make an effort to write poetry to the extent that the syllables match up where there should.

For example, if ever the first line of equally verse has 7 syllables and the second brand of each verse has 7 syllables, keep which beat. Try to avoid omitting the syllable or adding a further syllable if you can.

Here is a sample from a poem I really wrote (called Allergens in the Earth):


"Yours is the approach of the enemy

Ice cold is your clutch on my small soul."

Crazy are the words ready emptily '

Telling me just how go."

Series 1 - Seven syllables

Line 2 As 7 syllables

Line Various - 9 syllables

Path 4 - 10 syllables

Different poems would have different patterns. Still (other than free verse) each poem possesses some pattern. And ofcourse to follow the sequence of that particular poetry.

Sometimes you can get out with extra syllables, when you can finally "swallow" the extras without having to disturb the surpass.

I sometimes ruin the above rule average joe, but I try not to accomplish this if it will interrupt the rhythm not to mention general "beat" of the poetry. The key is to see if the particular poem still stats.

This applies to the different points I will selection out in this article too - read the poetry back to yourself and figure out if it flows. It should sound rhythmic, such as music? Does it good professional? Or manages to do it sound amateur, or choppy?

2. Little finger counting - you can actually literally count syllables with the fingers as you compose your lines, to ensure you keep your habit, as in #1 above. Anytime writing the composition I referred to on top of, I actually was no one the beats regarding line on my possession, to make sure they harmonized.


More than once I have came across a poet who had great concepts, still was lacking tempo in their poetry. By only counting the is better than of each line to the fingers, and improving the lines just where necessary (using a just a little different choice of sayings, for example) they switched their amateur songs into great types, which had emotional influence. All I had explained to them was the straightforward "finger counting" technique that I employ when I compose the lines.

3. Rhyming songs flows better ( space ) There are many people who can't live without free verse, and free verse is usually good. But a lot of people use free line as an excuse for being lazy. I have as well seen it put into use as a cover-up for drab lack of talent. Like ...

I like to go to the sea ...

It's so nice.

A ocean.

The pretty atlantic ocean.

"Ah, yes," the average person will say. "That's zero cost verse! Modern poems!"

Okay, I'll be exaggerating a little, but I have seen a number of pretty awful junk.

The greatest poems in the past have had rhythm together with rhyme (not to mention, meaning), like have the greatest new music.

There is a reason for this approach. Rhymes flow. Songs are catchy this will let you musical quality for many years. They are (not truly, but to a large degree) what makes something a song or a poem, in contrast to an ordinary piece of writing.

4. Match your accentuation - Sometimes your personal "syllable counts" match up fine nevertheless emphasis falls for different syllables throughout the traces, in such a way as to ruin the rhythm.

Suppose I had written these verse as follows (in place of how it is written above):

Yours is the tone of voice of the enemy Woul

Your clutch on my little soul is chilly.

Strange are the ideas pouring emptily '

Saying why you should go.

Notice that in both versions, typically the syllable count is the same. However in the second version, the actual rhythm is cast off. Because the intonation fall in different venues.

To illustrate, I will capitalize on the words that have the foremost emphasis when speaking these lines (obviously you don't "yell" these types of words, but you do state them with a bit more focus than the others):

Example One:

YOURS is the Speech of the enemy

COLD is your CLUTCH modest soul.

Example Couple of:

YOURS is the Tone of voice of the enemy

The CLUTCH on my coronary heart is COLD.

On example 1, any accent falls around the first and 4 . syllable of each line. Thus it flows.

In example 2, the furnishings don't "match" and the beats is thrown shut off.

5. Repetition

Duplication and pattern is considered the things that makes finery powerful. Besides the repeating rhythms, accents, syllables, and even rhyme, one can also use other sorts of repetition.

For example, occasionally, one can repeat the identical sound at the beginning of many words.

Here is a model from a poem Simply put i wrote many years ago, generally known as Magic:

Sometimes When i sleep while the nations roll round,

Resembling bravery, muffling the tone

Of unspeakable slavery...

Occasionally I weep as being the voice in the sky

Whispers why I ought not to die,

Murmurs of treason,

And dies out to a sigh.

It is fine here, but I by choice used two thoughts beginning with the standard "s" in the first range, and two words beginning with "m" in the second wire.

Here is another example of this where I did this valuable, with a few words on the first line (coming from a poem called Treason):

Considering that the sadly silent dwells

Of faded individuals, your voice revives.

I made use of the repetition of a "s" sound in the initially line, to make a poem flow somewhat more there.

I hope the very best rules will be necessary to you. I have known people who were able to set some of the above methods into application at enoromus speed, and they improved the quality of their poetry vastly by just thinking with many of the above points. They will work for you as well.


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Anna Vera Williams has been posting poetry since the chronological age of four. She has a variety of poetry websites and blogs where some other poets can interact, make feedback on each other's poetry, and put in their own work. For you to submit your own composition or to find additional poems written by Ould - and other poets, visit 100 % free Poems and An Invite to Poets. .
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