signals when and where to breathe (very important).ensures coherence and the presentation of meaning.Punctuation in poetry is similar to punctuation in prose and serves almost the same purpose as bar lines in music without which the words and notes won’t flow altogether. In other words, punctuation assists in organizing your words into discernible verses: In this lecture, our main concern is PUNCTUATION. There is nothing wrong with that, especially with poets whose verses are rich in metaphors, imagery and all other ingredients of poetry. But it must be also noted that the following poetry rules give our poems structure and clarity – common ground rules that help the poet communicate clearly and effectively to the reader. These days however, new ‘poets’ simply gather expressions, break them into verses and group them into stanzas (or just flow) – then you have a poem.

As a result, my poems were mostly with rhyme, rhythm and regular meter for years, until around 2009.Ī decade into poetry, I had developed my own rules. Then, I could work on a poem for days trying to master the existing styles (mostly sonnets and other metered poems). When I started writing poetry consciously in 2002, it was not unusual to see me reading a poem by the greats – like Shakespeare, Yeats, Frost, Clark, Leopold and their contemporaries – and then writing a mirror poem.

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