Whether you think it’s for the better or for the worse,
a poem doesn’t have to rhyme; free verse.

These words, you’ll know them.
They help make a poem.
Put words together for your friends and show them.
Poems come in many forms for many pallets;
like haiku, sonnet, free verse and ballads.

The rhythm or meter is the beat of the lines;
the predictable rhythm that the poem defines.

Rhyming patterns vary.
AB, CB,
AA, BB.
There are plenty.

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Shakespeare wrote fourteen-line poems called sonnets...

A ballad is a poem in songlike form...

Free verse is a common form of poetry...

Haiku; seventeen syllables, in a three-line form...

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Poetry doesn’t have many rules
But, here is a list of some useful tools
Alliteration, metaphor, repetition,
Onomatopoeia, simile, personification

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Alliteration, like rhyme, is a repetition of sound...

Repetition is used to make its point
Repetition is used to make its point

Onomatopoeia uses words to imitate...

Personification gives human qualities...

Similes make comparisons in poems...

Metaphors compare without these words....