poems that dont rhyme.....dont they make the speaker sound like they dont know what their talking about?

Answer 1

It's much more difficult to write a poem that rhymes and has a good meter. Shakespeare was good at it.

Of course, there will always be those who prefer free verse. I wonder if they enjoy music with no tempo and random pitch changes.

Answer 2

Poetry started with rhythm and rhyming. Now it has turned into some short sentences put together. Disgusting. People think it is emotional, but how could you feel even it is a poem when as you read it, it seems like reading a paragraph.

There should be at least rhythm if there is no rhyming. No offence, but I think nursery rhymes are great poems that were improved throughout ages. People edited them thousands of times.

Answer 3

What a strange vision of poetry! Poetry sometimes rhymes and sometimes does not. There is always this confusion between rhymes and a sound pattern.

Do you think John Milton, one of the greatest poets in the English language, did not know what he was talking about when he wrote Paradise Lost? (it does not rhyme).

Poetry is made of sounds and rhythm. Rhyming can be good, but also so conservative sometimes, because many people don't understand how it works and make it sound like cheap nursery rhymes.

Answer 4

Poems don't have to rhyme. Poems are expressions. If it rhymes or not matter not. If the writer is passionate about the subject enough to write about it then they know what they are talking about. I personally prefer non rhyming. The rhymes get annoying, like they are trying to hard. Who are you to judge a person's work?

Answer 5

No!

Not all poetry rhymes.
Unfortunately there are those who are not perverse in the art of poetry that think this way. Some of the most beautiful poetry you could read does not rhyme at all. Poetry says something about something and is a statement of thought and being.

Read more about it and you shall learn that there are all types of poetry, those that rhyme and those that do not.

Answer 6

I've heard plenty of rhyming poems that make me sick too. If you don't believe me, go to a card shop.

Its not about rhyme or non-rhyme. There is no objective measure of good art. Its all about communication of emotion.

Answer 7

Nah. It makes them sound more real and human. Those poems are always easier for me to relate to. Who thinks and feels in rhyme?

You should definitely read Ellen Hopkins.

Answer 8

Gee, that's narrow-minded. You're embarassing yourself by assuming that. It's all too evident you aren't well-read person of poetry. You don't need to be a well-rounded poet to critique poems but you should be a fairly well-rounded reader. At least moreso in your case.