Rhyme
Rhyming is about rhythm and surprise. It's all too easy to use words that everyone expects when coupling rhymes. Far more fun to do something a little new. For me, I don't often rhyme, but when an opportunity seems to be presenting itself, I may go with it. Usually, I love the results.
Oh yeah- the thesaurus is your friend. I use on a lot of non-rhyming poems too.
Oh yeah- the thesaurus is your friend. I use on a lot of non-rhyming poems too.
Anonymous
Everyone has there own art form, rhyme or not... Yes rhyming can sound childish at times... but can be entertaining as well, the thesaurus is an awesome way to not be predicable... but study your thoughts as well your words have something to say, be playful and flowy just have fun. not everyone will get it or like your methods.... but is it for you or is it for others? Challenging words expand your vocabulary.... and is a fun way to exercise that noodle.
I view myself neurotic
A functional psychotic
I want to be despotic
Of thoughts that are iconic
I’m wonderfully quixotic
Though my thoughts are chaotic
And writing semiotic
Hopefully are melodic
Searching meanings symbolic
But not too idiotic
My perception ironic
A functioning psychotic
I view myself neurotic
A functional psychotic
I want to be despotic
Of thoughts that are iconic
I’m wonderfully quixotic
Though my thoughts are chaotic
And writing semiotic
Hopefully are melodic
Searching meanings symbolic
But not too idiotic
My perception ironic
A functioning psychotic
To me
The key
Is having something to say
Got it?
Let's play:
This is from earlier in the thread- "Don't rhyme for the sake of rhyming. Each line should make sense and be fluid with the rest. The trick it to make your poetry sound natural and free flowing, rhyming or not. That's something, I think, we all struggle with at times."
Let's take that idea and form it into a rhyme (see, we're starting with something to say, and then reforming it to rhyme)
We all struggle at times
To sound natural and flowing
Regardless if it thymes,
This is something that's worth knowing
Ideas must be aligning
For your poem to read smoothly
Don't rhyme for sake of rhyming
Or your reader make get woozy
Okay, I don't know if that's crap, but it was a fun process. The ABAB CDCD way of rhyming is tried and true. I used the rhymezone website to help me find the right words a couple times. Since I've been down this rhyming road a lot, this didn't take me very long. Practice, practice, practice.
The key
Is having something to say
Got it?
Let's play:
This is from earlier in the thread- "Don't rhyme for the sake of rhyming. Each line should make sense and be fluid with the rest. The trick it to make your poetry sound natural and free flowing, rhyming or not. That's something, I think, we all struggle with at times."
Let's take that idea and form it into a rhyme (see, we're starting with something to say, and then reforming it to rhyme)
We all struggle at times
To sound natural and flowing
Regardless if it thymes,
This is something that's worth knowing
Ideas must be aligning
For your poem to read smoothly
Don't rhyme for sake of rhyming
Or your reader make get woozy
Okay, I don't know if that's crap, but it was a fun process. The ABAB CDCD way of rhyming is tried and true. I used the rhymezone website to help me find the right words a couple times. Since I've been down this rhyming road a lot, this didn't take me very long. Practice, practice, practice.
Anonymous
try syllable counting...challenging but playful
My ex-wife drove me crazy
Convinced me I was lazy
Shot down my intelligence
To boost up her confidence
Superiority
Demanding conformity
Trying to control my life
Didn’t expect from my wife
Questioned my reality
Destroying my mentality
Her comments drove me insane
And my life became mundane
Inferiority
Slave to her authority
My voice she tried to muzzle
Still dealing with this struggle
My ex-wife drove me crazy
Convinced me I was lazy
Shot down my intelligence
To boost up her confidence
Superiority
Demanding conformity
Trying to control my life
Didn’t expect from my wife
Questioned my reality
Destroying my mentality
Her comments drove me insane
And my life became mundane
Inferiority
Slave to her authority
My voice she tried to muzzle
Still dealing with this struggle
At times rhyme is to allign the pieces of the puzzle.
Forgive if this format is a bit unconventional..
Derelict deeds of some fairly lit fiends.
Obscene obscure dreams which are seldom seen.
Church bells of the worst hells.
Police sirens, babies dying.
Freely firing false flags to fall flat.
Keenly conspiring clause tax to call rats.
One way gun play from monday to sunday.
The shunned lay a stunned way which not a word can one say.
A rising rebel despising the devil.
Flying metal conspiring to deshevel.
A crying kettle flying to an aspiring level.
In a place of pure panic, a face allured satanic.
A race in which no one has planned it.
Forgive if this format is a bit unconventional..
Derelict deeds of some fairly lit fiends.
Obscene obscure dreams which are seldom seen.
Church bells of the worst hells.
Police sirens, babies dying.
Freely firing false flags to fall flat.
Keenly conspiring clause tax to call rats.
One way gun play from monday to sunday.
The shunned lay a stunned way which not a word can one say.
A rising rebel despising the devil.
Flying metal conspiring to deshevel.
A crying kettle flying to an aspiring level.
In a place of pure panic, a face allured satanic.
A race in which no one has planned it.
SatInUGal said:Best way to learn syllable counting is to write a ton of haiku
Ah but that's a misnomer subscribed to by far too many, sorry to say. Haiku (and other forms of Japanese poetry) is not by syllable count, but by sound symbols (sound symbols are shorter than syllables), and this does not apply to the form when written in English language.
Apologies, SatinU, if you were being humorous, I'm sleep-deprived at the moment so please pardon me won't you. Thank you for listening anyway?
Jadey
Ah but that's a misnomer subscribed to by far too many, sorry to say. Haiku (and other forms of Japanese poetry) is not by syllable count, but by sound symbols (sound symbols are shorter than syllables), and this does not apply to the form when written in English language.
Apologies, SatinU, if you were being humorous, I'm sleep-deprived at the moment so please pardon me won't you. Thank you for listening anyway?
Jadey
