Muse & Rhyme/Meter  

Posted by Emily Beck

Apparently I'm out numbered, but I enjoy meter and rhyme. It makes a poem far more fun and interesting to read in my opinion. I just enjoy the bouncy, happy element that it can bring into the poem; and it has a flip side. It can also bring in other emotions or tones too, they don't always have to be happy, rhyme and meter can sound angry too. I haven't read any free write poems with as much heart or feeling as some of the meter poems I've read in the past. Not that I don't enjoy free write, because I do, just not at much as rhyme and meter.
I also enjoy "muse writing". When I write I've always just written down whatever pops into my head. I don't really just jump around from topic to topic though, sometimes I feel as if I'm not getting creative enough with my muse writing. I can generally define a topic and stick to it, occasionally veering off course, but then finding my way back to the original point, or what have you; but it's not nearly as jumpy as "following a midget".

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2 comments

I get what you're saying about meter and rhyme and I feel the same way. It just adds an extra element to it, as well as making it more enjoyable to read. While free verse is supposed to allow for an expansion on what can be said using poetry, it seems that poems written in such a way might not create a strong enough feeling as if they were written with rhyme or meter.

February 26, 2012 at 11:01 PM

I won't disagree with your opinion on rhyme/meter, but I do feel we should get away from making that and free verse a seperate entity for different purposes. Generalizing in that sense takes away from what you could potentially get out of a poem.

March 10, 2012 at 3:39 PM

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