> As others have mentioned, there’s also this notion pushed in our youth that poetry has to have perfect rhyme, or follow some scheme....
This is an idea that actually makes more sense in the context of poetry as play. Schemes and poetic forms are just rules you could play by, and it’s usually more fun to play by some set of rules.
This is an idea that actually makes more sense in the context of poetry as play. Schemes and poetic forms are just rules you could play by, and it’s usually more fun to play by some set of rules.