Hey, glad to see you here.
Here I'll be explaining the beautiful aspects that engulfs a poem.

( Go to my previous article if you would like to read what poems are!

https://wrytin.com/adilmohmmed/verse-vs-poetry-jthgo6j5 )

Let's get to it, what makes a poem into poem?

An example to give things some perspective.

There is freedom waiting for you/ on the breezes of sky/ and you ask “what if I fall?”/ Oh but my darling/ what if you fly? - Erin Hanson

  • Regular Rhythm - As you read it, can you hear the regular beat of sound; like marching of soldiers, or a regular beat of the feet of people dancing? It is because that the poet is cunning and very precise with words. It is caused by the arrangement of the words in such a manner that the syllables produce a rhythemic melody, the regular rising and falling in the flow of sounds in poetry. These recurring intervals of strong and light sounds, like the beats of a drum, is called rhythm.

  • Rhyme - We have noticed this since we were kids that the ends of every line had another line with almost the same sound. When words have the same vowel sound and end with the same consonant sounds, they are said to rhyme. Example, keep, peep, jeep. Hate, bait, slate. And many more.

These two aspects are the basic instrument which performs the extravagant symphony called Poems. Poems consists not only words but the feelings of the poet.

Hence I depart with these famous words.

Two roads diverged in a wood / and I-- I took the one less travelled by / And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost

And another one:

Peace

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