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Poetry has a huge base here on Vizzed, more so than short stories. Poetry is an art of stanzas, verses, and rhymes to strengthen a topic or just to create an emotion in general. This is a short guide on how poetry should be designed, and organized. 

1. Be consistent with sequencing your poem.

This is really one of my huge pet peeves, and it does happen in a lot of poetry that I see here on this forum. Always keep your syllables, verse structures roughly the same length throughout. Unless you feel that it could be a genuine use for effect, stick with it.

However, this can be an exception depending on where you change your patterns. For example, using it to generate emotion in a climax would be a very good use, though, using it just for the heck of it isn't. 

Another thing to consider is that you should always be very cautious of your rhymes. ABAB patterns are standard for most poems while limericks are typically AABBA. Be very sensitive. Do not change rhyming patterns in the middle of a verse (sounds stupid, but some people do it.) and make the flow work.

2. A poem should teach someone a message.

Your poem doesn't need to tell a complete story, it can maybe tell us what you like about a certain character, or can even show your hobbies. Point being, don't write a poem on a mish-mash of topics, stick to one topic throughout the whole poem.

Common topics for poems are war, fantasy, fairies, and anything related to Halloween. You get the idea. Don't choose topics that can offend people or are very political. (Not saying that you shouldn't make a poem about Donald Trump, just be very cautious on the content.)

Conveying emotions or stating an effect can easily be subtle ways of conveying messages about your story, for example, take this excerpt from Remembered by acman+Mariofan

"I want to be known for inspiring
Instead of staying in the comfort zone
My mind keeps designing"

It conveys a very good message and summary of how the author feels about what he does. Take my advice: your poem should tell us something, whether that something is the emotion you felt after some tragedy or your first kiss, I'll leave it up to you.

3.. Don't state the obvious: use vivid descriptions.

Okay now listen, just because this isn't a story, doesn't mean we need to lack descriptions altogether. For example: using the sentence, "I saw a train last night." isn't exactly descriptive, now is it? The point I'm trying to emphasize is: don't forget about the imagery you can create using a poem. 

Instead of thinking about how you will rhyme your next sentence, think of how you are going to empower a description. Let's take the previous phrase we use and transform it.

A basic use of it, as we just discussed, would be: "I saw a train last night."

Okay, well that's boring, let's make that more creative, but not as vivid. Perhaps down to earth, like: "A train passed by me last night."

Hmm, still, that's a little cliche. If I were to make that to another level, it would be: "A train whispered upon us last night."

4. Don't be afraid to use punctuation to your advantage.

Ambitious punctuation is something that doesn't get used enough in poetry today, with semicolons, colons, being disregarding as being too advanced for a simple stanza. I disagree. Let's take that vivid sentence we used.

"A train whispered upon us last night."

Is it possible to make this more interesting in a new stanza? Let us find out.

"A train whispered upon us last night;
with its fine seats and pretty lights."

As you can see from the above, we used the semicolon to join two sentences together, which is very common to use to design couplets in poetry, and actually one of my preferred methods of forgetting the connection. (such as and, or, etc.) Don't be afraid to use it all to your advantage: you have control of what you do in your poem and don't let anyone stop you.

You could even lose the punctuation together which is a very good technique for developing similes, metaphors, personification, pathetic fallcy, etc! There is so much you can do with missing punctuation, punctuation itself and more. Don't be afraid to include it in interesting ways to make for an exciting read.

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I hope you guys found this useful! If you want anymore tips feel free to ask me below, and I will add them here as soon as possible. Thanks for reading, good luck!


Poetry has a huge base here on Vizzed, more so than short stories. Poetry is an art of stanzas, verses, and rhymes to strengthen a topic or just to create an emotion in general. This is a short guide on how poetry should be designed, and organized. 

1. Be consistent with sequencing your poem.

This is really one of my huge pet peeves, and it does happen in a lot of poetry that I see here on this forum. Always keep your syllables, verse structures roughly the same length throughout. Unless you feel that it could be a genuine use for effect, stick with it.

However, this can be an exception depending on where you change your patterns. For example, using it to generate emotion in a climax would be a very good use, though, using it just for the heck of it isn't. 

Another thing to consider is that you should always be very cautious of your rhymes. ABAB patterns are standard for most poems while limericks are typically AABBA. Be very sensitive. Do not change rhyming patterns in the middle of a verse (sounds stupid, but some people do it.) and make the flow work.

2. A poem should teach someone a message.

Your poem doesn't need to tell a complete story, it can maybe tell us what you like about a certain character, or can even show your hobbies. Point being, don't write a poem on a mish-mash of topics, stick to one topic throughout the whole poem.

Common topics for poems are war, fantasy, fairies, and anything related to Halloween. You get the idea. Don't choose topics that can offend people or are very political. (Not saying that you shouldn't make a poem about Donald Trump, just be very cautious on the content.)

Conveying emotions or stating an effect can easily be subtle ways of conveying messages about your story, for example, take this excerpt from Remembered by acman+Mariofan

"I want to be known for inspiring
Instead of staying in the comfort zone
My mind keeps designing"

It conveys a very good message and summary of how the author feels about what he does. Take my advice: your poem should tell us something, whether that something is the emotion you felt after some tragedy or your first kiss, I'll leave it up to you.

3.. Don't state the obvious: use vivid descriptions.

Okay now listen, just because this isn't a story, doesn't mean we need to lack descriptions altogether. For example: using the sentence, "I saw a train last night." isn't exactly descriptive, now is it? The point I'm trying to emphasize is: don't forget about the imagery you can create using a poem. 

Instead of thinking about how you will rhyme your next sentence, think of how you are going to empower a description. Let's take the previous phrase we use and transform it.

A basic use of it, as we just discussed, would be: "I saw a train last night."

Okay, well that's boring, let's make that more creative, but not as vivid. Perhaps down to earth, like: "A train passed by me last night."

Hmm, still, that's a little cliche. If I were to make that to another level, it would be: "A train whispered upon us last night."

4. Don't be afraid to use punctuation to your advantage.

Ambitious punctuation is something that doesn't get used enough in poetry today, with semicolons, colons, being disregarding as being too advanced for a simple stanza. I disagree. Let's take that vivid sentence we used.

"A train whispered upon us last night."

Is it possible to make this more interesting in a new stanza? Let us find out.

"A train whispered upon us last night;
with its fine seats and pretty lights."

As you can see from the above, we used the semicolon to join two sentences together, which is very common to use to design couplets in poetry, and actually one of my preferred methods of forgetting the connection. (such as and, or, etc.) Don't be afraid to use it all to your advantage: you have control of what you do in your poem and don't let anyone stop you.

You could even lose the punctuation together which is a very good technique for developing similes, metaphors, personification, pathetic fallcy, etc! There is so much you can do with missing punctuation, punctuation itself and more. Don't be afraid to include it in interesting ways to make for an exciting read.

----------

I hope you guys found this useful! If you want anymore tips feel free to ask me below, and I will add them here as soon as possible. Thanks for reading, good luck!


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