Making Sense of Rhyme and Rhythm

The following senses list poem talks about how the use of rhythm and rhyme can be important in poetry.  It includes a small amount of alliteration and assonance, as well as some personification and metaphors.

Feel the music of the rhythm In your fingers and your toes. Feel the way the poem bounces With the rhythm as it flows.
	See the journey of the rhythm As it travels into rhyme
Hear the clapping of your hands As they help you keep in time.
	Taste the flavour of the poem As the words trip off your tongue
Smell the essence of the message Now the fun has just begun……

If you’d like to learn how to include rhyme and rhythm in your poetry, you might be surprised to know that it isn’t just something that comes naturally and you’ve either got it or you haven’t!  There are lots of really basic techniques that you can grasp which will help you to make your rhythm poetry sound better, and which will help you to understand about rhyme patterns, so click on whichever you would like to learn about, or click here to go to the page “Making Sense of Rhyme and Rhythm” to go through it all!  

I even offer tips on editing your poetry, which is something that the very best poets take very seriously.

A poem isn’t automatically perfect the instant it’s written.  It goes through a process of improvement as the poet thinks about whether another word might be more effective, or whether  the rhythm doesn’t feel quite right, or a line should be lengthened, shortened, or a rhyme changed, or even whether it would be better to leave a part of the poem out.  This process gets easier and quicker as the techniques become more natural, just like walking and talking at the same time isn’t difficult when you’ve developed the skill!  In the meantime, just click on whichever part interests you and, I promise, it is something you can have fun learning and practising.

You too could be an immature, children’s poet at 42 years of age, just like me!   Now there’s something to look forward to!

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