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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
Same here, queentess.
I've come across a very few poems that impressed me. They were strongly structured with rhyme and even rhythm, making them almost spoken music.
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One of the things that can help, if you are the kind of person who has this kind of trouble or lack of enjoyment reading poetry, is to read it out loud, or even out loud to someone else. Part of the fun of poetry is the sounds the words make together (not just end-rhyme and meter, but also internal rhyme, alliteration, etc.). Think of a Dr. Seuss books...Fox in Socks, etc. Just fun with syllables, basically. I read a lot of nonsense poetry as a child and I think that helped me appreciate the more serious stuff as I aged.