[Trow2408]

Ok heres a big question that has come up in my mind. I wonder to myself as i write, how can this rhyme? But does that really matter? I want your oppinion on whether it increases/decreases the quality. Any link about rhyming is welcome, if the admin. allows for it.

Travis

[Olivia]

I think sometimes if you try to make everything rhyme it sounds fake and forced. Not everything has to rhyme, but if it rhymes and it seems that it came naturally, and not that you searched for words in order for it to rhyme, then it increases the quality.
But rhyming or not rhyming, to me, doesn't determine the quality of writing.

This post has been edited by Olivia: 26 February 2005 - 04:46 PM

[ShadowChild19]

Rhyming depends on the poet and his/her experience as one. It they are very experienced obviously their rhyming would be good. I mean you really cant rhyme the first time and accept it to be good if you want to go in that direction. It takes a lot of dedication. Rhyming is more harder than lets say free writing because you are under limitations. I prefer to to do free writes because for me it is easier than rhyming.

And rhyming can decrease a poet's work if they fail to get the message across in the fashion they wanted to. but if you are good at rhyming and are able to get the message across while limiting yourself than kudos to you. Maybe rhyming doesnt limit oneself but you have to work with words and be good at it. I guess you have to know your vocabulary.

In the end it doesnt really decrese or increase your quality of writing if you are able to master the art of rhyming. And this is just my opinion.

[Ecstasy08]

To be honest with you. I dont think Rhyming really matters. A rhyming poem isnt always better than a none rhyming one. I write poems that are both rhyming and none rhyming. I think its fun to mix it all up. If you are not good with getting your point through when you rhyme. Then maybe free style is your style.
As long as your point comes through clear. What ever you are writing can be considered high quality.

You will find that each person has a personal opinion about about your question. Its up to you to choose what seems right. I dont think either way can be called wrong. Especially if its from the heart. Like I always say any one that puts there heart into something diserves a pat on the back.

This post has been edited by nightangel8: 26 February 2005 - 09:49 PM

[Calista]

Rhyming doesn't matter. Rythym does. If a poem doesn't have a good rythym to it, it isn't a poem, it's chopped up prose. It may be very good prose, but it isn't a poem.

[Trow2408]

The reason i ask such a question as this is because one of my friends. She sings quite well if you ask me, but you probably didnt. She has this one quote from somwhere (not sure where she got it) that says "Sing a poem, have rythm and rhyme" . She wants to know which matters more, i tell her, it doesnt matter, as long as its from the hear. Were like brother and sister, its crazy. But alls well, thank you all for the responses, i will tell her you alls messages.

Travis

[Sulthana]

a good poem can easily be made into a good song but a song is not always good poetry.(I should give u and exmaple to back it up but I can't think of one right now)

It's like a simile is a type of metaphor but a metaphor is not a simile.

[Trow2408]

ya i get what you mean. a song can be a poem, but not always good poetry. i think. What i see after i study a book of random poetry, i see that true emotions are put in a metaphorical stanzas, and rhyming thoughts are put in an "A,B,A,B,C,D,C" form like that. What do you all see when you read others poetry?

Travis

[lost_in_back]

i feel that it is good to switch back and forth between rhyming...if you can make it rhyme and it goes with the poem then do it...if not then dont bust your ass trying to come up with a work...

[half_cup_of_water]

Trow2408, on Feb 26 2005, 08:42 PM, said:

Ok heres a big question that has come up in my mind. I wonder to myself as i write, how can this rhyme? But does that really matter? I want your oppinion on whether it increases/decreases the quality. Any link about rhyming is welcome, if the admin. allows for it.

Travis

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oh god no! lol as long as it flows you should be good...the quality has nothing to to with rhyme..at all

[Owen]

Trow2408, on Feb 26 2005, 08:42 PM, said:

Ok heres a big question that has come up in my mind. I wonder to myself as i write, how can this rhyme? But does that really matter? I want your oppinion on whether it increases/decreases the quality. Any link about rhyming is welcome, if the admin. allows for it.

Travis

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I think an important point that's been missed is "Does rhyming matter to you?"
If you think it's important for a piece to rhyme and you feel it's essence would be enhanced by rhyming then Rhyme is important. Rhythm is more important as these replies have shown but frankly it's hard to have good rhyme without good rhythm anyway. So get one right and the other is easier.
Basically, If you want to rhyme, work on it and see if it's important to you.