Hallooooo everybody ^_^ Just wanna give an apology that I haven’t been online lately. I’ve just returned from vacation. I missed you all, don’t worry :3
Anyways, I’ve seen poetry become a new fad amongst MMO and someone had mentioned they were in need of a poetry guide. Well, here ya go! 😀

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Tips for Writing a Decent Poem
disclaimer : several people had bombarded me with private messages in my previous blogs saying “but you’re not even a popular writer!, you haven’t written anything!” et cetera. If you read my blogs, no where do I claim to be “that great”, and these are just guides. Please don’t hate me [and also, I’m a sucky poet. I’m just doing this as a request <3]
PS: This blog will reflect more upon rhymed poetry rather than free verse because. . . Well, I can’t help you that much with technicalities of free verse 😛
PPS: Wow. This blog sucks. -_-” New disclaimer : I am not a poet, so I suck at poetry. Following this guide and believing that I follow these as well is your decision

Things to keep in mind

About Poetry
Just keep in mind that Poetry and writing a story are two completely different things. You express your ideas differently and have the ability to say things in a way you can’t via poetry over writing. In my personal opinion, writing a poem is much deeper.
Try to let your emotions shine, take advantage of writing in such a beautiful style. Don’t say “and she lifted her hand to brush away her hair,” say it with a poetic edge, make it unique.

Have fun with this
Writing poetry is hard.
REALLY hard.
Don’t stress. Have some fun. Read some Dr. Suess once your done and be proud. Don’t feel obliged to do anything you don’t want to, and chillax :]

Purpose
Have a precise goal or message you want to get out, may it be a love confession or how you loathe that yellow wallpaper. Tips on working on details to display this will come up later. You could even try to make your poem have a story plot, but those, in my opinion, are really hard 😡 I really suggest having an idea of where you’re going- how you begin and how you end and what’s inbetween- and patience. Good poetry takes a while. A long while.

Style
Have a style in mind while starting to get your goal

Theme Hand in hand with Purpose, have an idea for a theme.
By theme, I’m not only talking about what kind of message you want to send, but your word usage. You can make it seem whimsical and light using words like “phantasmagoria” or “Zeal” or make up your own words and sound affects. . . or use really long or short or complicated or. . .
Well, you get what I’m saying. Just make the words you use fit your Purpose so you can emphasize it even more.
Try to keep your theme in mind as you decide on detail, symbolism, stanzas, rhyming patterns, et cetera.

Detail Like every good piece of writing, make your poem as detailed as possible. Or lack of detail. At any rate, you can enhance it all the more either way.
Assuming that you’re trying to add as much detail as possible, when you do add detail, let it help convey your message. Regular writing calls for as much detail as possible. Poetry just needs enough to make it all the more. . . “you”.

Let me demonstrate what I mean, and how it’s different from regular writing.
~If I was describing how a particular girl is selfish, I could say “She then took the money for herself.” Adding detail like a story would result in; “Her long, bony fingers then quickly snatched the currency from the redwood table in a second.” Twisting the first sentence towards my drive, however, would be more like: “Her fingers decorated with rings clawed any desired object like a vulture, no hesitation or remorse.”
(By the way, there’s some small symbolism and a simile in there)

Symbolism Symbolism can make a poem extremely more interesting.
Small symbolism- I don’t know if there’s a proffesional term for “small symbolism”, but by that I mean symbolism that you insert as details. Things like that are usually just there to add more foreshadowing, background information, et cetera, and general detail. They become much more stylistic and way cooler than just plain out saying things 😉 I can’t particularly help you with creating symbolism (in this guide. . . I could try PM’s :x), but examples would be like. . .

In said example above- “Her fingers decorated with rings ” Ringless. Saying the word “ring”, you would think about wedding rings or expensive decorations. Well if I was saying the woman was selfish, you would think that she’s married several times before, is married, divorced, et cetera, or that she likes to feel pretty and rich and spends a lot of money on rings. Et cetera, it all points towards the fact that she’s selfish.

Or let’s take a line from “Elenor Rigby” (by The Beetles) – ” Wearing the Face that she keeps in the Jar by the door” . I haven’t done any research on the song, but I interpreted it as. . .
“face in the jar”, being make up or beauty that can be found/contained in jars, as if the woman relies on her make-up as the essence of her beauty and face, or possibly just a mask that she wears that really isn’t her. (mask being something that covers her true self, she appears as something she is not. Hey look, more symbolism!)
“by the door”, once again, the woman is probably dependant on this mask and she’s waiting for something (other clues for that are found in the song :o)

General/long symbolism- This requires a bit more thinking, but proves extremely creative. This calls for the whole poem to be some sort of weird fantastic symbol, personification, and metaphors. I don’t know how to explain it but. . . Place things in a different universe, make your similes into reality. Don’t make your characters like a slime, MAKE them a slime! Make them all slimes that admire the King Slime who bullies everyone! (as in that’s a symbol talking about small things admiring a giant huge raping thing) Have the yetis converse in meaningless violence and explain why the Tick-Tock grew sad even though as a Tock it was happy.
Try to keep it Maple related, but if it’s not, I’m sure it’s okay 😡

Repetition Not exactly required, but helps build a theme for your poem and strengthens it.
Having a reoccuring line helps emphasize the theme and can easily connect the beginning to the end. I just find it really cool if you use repetition x3
Repetition can be just a word, a series of words, or a line. While words can generally be random, if you use repetition, try to make it in generally the same position of each stanza. For example, have every other line start with a certain word(s) or have a stanza’s last line be the same thing throughout the poem.
Also you can try to vary it, possibly to show development. Play with tenses or the verbs of the sentence.
A good example that comes to mind when talking about repetition is “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. Each of his stanza end with the line “Quoth the Raven, ‘Nevermore’ “, and varies each stanza, changing the word “Quoth” with a different verb.

However, don’t abuse this style. Don’t be annoying and have no variation in your words. Don’t go “Happy. She was happy. Happy was all she could feel.” That stuff is just annoying.

Technicalities
Moving on with the actual building the poem~

Type of poem/stanza build Haiku? Sonnet? Or just a regular poem?
Keep this point in mind when thinking of the rhyming build. Will you have four lines a stanza? Three? Eight? Two?
Also, there are different kinds of poems that come with their own rules. They have certain rhyming patters, amount of lines, syllables in each line, et cetera. Here are some examples ::

Sonnet :: Four stanzas- First three with four lines, last with two lines — Rhyming pattern- ABAB CDCD EFEF GG — Ten syllables.
Limmerick :: Five lines — Rhyming pattern- AABBA
And well. . . I dont’ know any other poem structures xD

ArcImpulse1 adds :: haiku format – 3 lines, with 5 syllables in the 1st and 3rd line and 7 in the 2nd, with no rhyming pattern.

More about making your poem follows ::

~~ Rhyming Pattern Have a rhyming pattern unless you want your poem to be a messy. . . mess.
Unless you have a solid scheme you’re following (i.e. Sonnet), you’re going to have to think of your own rhyming scheme.
If you failed second grade and didn’t pay attention to rhyming patterns, rhyming patterns are an indicator of how each line of the poem rhymes with each other. Looking at an ABAB rhyming scheme, saying that ABAB corresponds to the four lines of a stanza, the first and third lines, labeled as A, would rhyme with each other and all the other A’s in the poem. The B’s- being the second and fourth lines- would rhyme with each other.

Common Patterns :: ABAB / CDCD (every other line), AABB / CCDD (every pair of lines), ABABC / DEDEC (every other line rhyming, a repeated line/rhyme at the end of each stanza)
Just try to have it in mind while writing and keep it solid. If you’re going to make your own, have it follow each stanza. Try not to change rhyming patterns throughout the poem as it makes it confusing and sloppy.

~~ Intonation The ups and downs, longs and shorts of syllables and saying words
I personally find this something that you don’t need to worry about too much, but it relates to making the poem flow better.
Intonation, going along with Iambs, is the change of sound in words- be it pitch or length, how some syllables are stressed or not.
To explain. . . when you speak, some syllables are dragged on slightly longer than others, like how in the word longer , “long” is stressed over “er”. In the words it and eat , “eat” is said longer than “it”. The word intonation – “in” and “a” are said shortly, while “ton” and “tion” are held longer.

To use this in poetry, try to look up some Iambic meters. Iambic meters are basically patterns of certain intonation in which each line of your poem should be. Should every other syllable be stressed? Some other variation?
I personally find this extremely hard to think about all of this while writing, but good luck if you do 😡 Following guidelines of Iambic meters however will make your rhyming more perfect, your poems flow better, and ultimately a better piece of work.

~~ Syllable Count How many syallables will you allow yourself?
I do suggest having restrictions on amount of syllables. Put a number on how many syllables each line will be- ten syllables a line? Five? Eight? Just pick a number (I suggest ten) and make sure each line follows it. There could be exceptions however, but that should only be on important lines- like repeated or other stylistic lines.
This is the best and easiest way to organize and make your poem smoother. No really, I emphasize this point. It’s somewhat annoying to have a mouthful of a line at one part, then about four words in the next line. Make each line seem even and smooth ;D

Perfect Rhymes This is just a personal issue, but I dislike it when rhyming poems do not use perfect rhymes.
For instance, does “chain” rhyme with “again”? No, they don’t. Match it! D:<
If you’re having trouble rhyming, go to thesaurus.com to see otherwords that match the meaning, or better yet, rhymezone.com I love that website xD
Don’t forget to match syllable count and try to have the same intonation in your rhyming words!

ArcImpulse1 adds :: I disagree with is the perfect rhyme section, because some dialects pronounce words differently, so they might rhyme then

Well, that’s all I gotta say. Really, I’m not a poet, so if someone could please correct me 😡 I’d be happy to edit my blog.
Really.

I hoped I helped you just a bit. Once again, I hope you all can help me by telling me what I did wrong.

And now for a poem I made so you can all laugh at me! (Made about a year ago -_-” But whatever)
Canon
The strings like knives with a musical touch-
Squirrel tail on top without fur and such,
Its bare-naked back with a chestnut tan,
An f-shaped tatoo placed below my hand;
Oh, let our God’s song resonate within;
When a bow meets blade-
Sing those silenced songs-
of my beautiful violin

Good luck, take care.