how do you write a poem that doesn't rhyme? What makes it a poem?

Question

I'm sorry. im kinda dumb please explain this to me

Answer 1

her, i'll show you how easy it is. I'll write a quick one for you
"a poem is..."


there, see. whatever you want it to be

Answer 2

i don't think every poem should rhyme, those poems which do not have any rhyme can convey deeper emotion than those that does have rhyme... poem is what you want it to be.. if you want to write one such poem you got to know what you wanna write about. what excites you, what is the thing that you feel strongly about.. than you just have to pen down your thoughts and your emotions. the more honest you are with yourself while writing the poem, the better your poem would be. you just have to keep your guards down and let your mind flow..
i am sure the poem would be great whether there is any rhyme or not...

Answer 3

Not all poetry rhymes. Classic poetry from all the way back in history down to the relative present was based on meter and rhythm. It's a pretty involved topic. Maybe this link will help.

Answer 4

Good for you! Many people try to write poetry without first exploring this question, and end up writing junk instead of poetry. Take a look at the quote below. If it helps, go to the source - I gave the link - and study a bit more.

Welcome to the world of oems, and good luck!

"FREE VERSE
A fluid form which conforms to no set rules of traditional versification. The free in free verse refers to the freedom from fixed patterns of meter and rhyme, but writers of free verse employ familiar poetic devices such as assonance, alliteration, imagery, caesura, figures of speech etc., and their rhythmic effects are dependent on the syllabic cadences emerging from the context. The term is often used in its French language form, vers libre. Walt Whitman's "By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame," is an example of a poem written in free verse.
Sidelight: Although as ancient as Anglo-Saxon verse, free verse was first employed "officially" by French poets of the Symbolist movement and became the prevailing poetic form at the climax of Romanticism. In the 20th century it was the chosen medium of the Imagists and was widely adopted by American and English poets.
Sidelight: One of the characteristics that distinguish free verse from rhythmical prose is that free verse has line breaks which divide the content into uneven rhythmical units. The liberation from metrical regularity allows the poet to select line breaks appropriate to the intended sense of the text, as well as to shape the white space on the page for visual effect.
Sidelight: Free verse enjoys a greater potential for visual arrangement than is possible in metrical verse. Free verse poets can structure the relationships between white space and textual elements to indicate pause, distance, silence, emotion, and other effects.
Sidelight: Poorly written free verse can be viewed simply as prose with arbitrary line breaks. Well-written free verse can approach a proximity to the representation of living experience."

Answer 5

i spoke to a man who asked me "how do you write a poem?"
and I told him "just like that'
he looked at me confused and bewildered at the face
"like that how?" he asked
"just like that i said",
"you say what you want, when you want, in what ever way you want, because it's your soul, your mouth, and your brain that makes that blank sheet of paper filthy with raw thoughts".

that's how. talk, talk to yourself and to your sheet of paper, or even your desk that you're scribbling on, because if you put it into words it's a poem. Now what makes a "good" poem (and good is such a terse term) is an entirely different and debateably question.

Answer 6

A poem can be open
In what it wants to say
and you can play with the cadence
or not at all

A poem is compressed emotions
using your words to their fullest
and though people like it when they rhyme
They don't have to

I can even play
with
How
I
present
it

To evoke a visual and viseral response
Poetry is very personal
So
It's
All
Up
To
You

Answer 7

so glad you asked this question. this site is full of rhyming crap.

Here, read some Bukowski from a Beats Poet site...and then read the other poems from the beats...then read some Billy Collins

http://www.rooknet.com/beatpage/writers/bukowski.html#greatslob

Answer 8

the rhythm in each line makes it like a poem. Sonnets for example often have 10 syllables in each line and a unstressed/stressed syllable pattern.

Answer 9

The rhythm of your sentences... something like: Jack and Jill went up the hill with a buck fifty a piece, Jill went down and broke his crown And that's how Jill ended up with three bucks....

Answer 10

who told you you had to