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Originally Posted by xibalban
Very admirable poems, those two. I can see how it can be so simple yet effective. How important is it for a poem to be "sing-able" or to remain within bounds of some poetic metre?
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I think it is important to have some sort of rhyming scheme myself. I've read some stuff that didn't rhyme at all which seemed more like prose to me. In fact the one I linked to "Cupid" won me an honorable mention in a contest and the grand prize winning poem read like someone's description of walking down the street in the big city. i.e. 1st I saw this then that, etc. I don't know what criteria they used to determine that it was worth the grand prize but it seemed more like a prose essay to me than poetry. I think having a rhyming scheme like the couplets that I used helps in memorizing poems. I don't know if I could remember a very long poem from memory but with the limitations on what word rhymes with a given word i.e. power & flower it does make it easier with a shorter one. Of course not every poem rhymes in quite the same way. Shakespeare had his own pattern of structure that was 14 lines long (if I recall correctly) and reads a lot differently I'm sure than a series of couplets do.