Rhyming; I Need Help

[sweet-jay]

Hey Nice people,
how do i get my poetry to rhyme? must all good poetry rhyme?

GOD BLESS YOU!!!!

[Thebigguy]

You might check with the Poets like Keith Wallis.

[Laina]

Hi Sweet Jay

There is poetry that rhymes and poetry that doesn't. It's your preference, your style. You can do both or one or the other. I lean towards rhyme.

Lighthouse Bob helped me allot with a poem I wrote. If you read this whole thread, you'll learn about rhythm and meter. It will help you to get started.

http://christianwriters.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17705

Also if you google rhythm and meter in poetry, you'll find lots of help on the web.

All the best to you!

[Tarin]

I'm no authority on poetry, but I do know that most of favorite poems don't, in fact, rhyme. :) As for coming up with rhymes, what about a rhyming dictionary?

[lynnmosher]

There's a rhyming site that might help you out. I've used it quite often.

http://rhymezone.com/

Hope this helps.

[jacks girl]

To me personally I don't care for poetry if it doesn't rhyme. I guess there are people out there that don't like poems that rhyme.

A tip on rhyming is some words when rhyming kind of sound alike when others are all but the same word give or take a letter or two.
red, bed led ted all rhyme perfectly then you have said red fred instead they all sound the same but are not the same in spelling.

All of my poems rhyme and I'll be honest I can't tell you how I do it. it just comes out that way. I may have a word here or there I have to work on but mostly it just flows out like the rest of the words. I'm not meaning to sound like I'm bragging because trust me I'm not. it's just I don't know how to tell you how to learn to rhyme. It just comes naturally for me it may have something to do with all of the songs that i write because most songs rhyme but I'm leaning to the fact that it's a talent.

I think rhyming is a talent just as other things, some people can sing, some can play music, I think you can learn to rhyme but it may be harder this way. Practice makes perfect, but don't be upset if your poems don't rhyme, may be it's not your gift or talent just like mine isn't playing sports or writing non fiction.

We don't all have the same talents, or interests. I suggest that if you want to rhyme then you try hard to do so, take it on a poem by poem basis. Pray and ask the Lord to help you in any part of your life. He says we have not because we don't ask.

So if you want to rhyme practice, and ask for the Lord's help.

I hope this helps.

jacks Girl

[kshsj777]

To me, although rhyme is nice, I think that rhythm is more important.

[Keith Wallis]

Before the 20th century rhyme and poetry were probably synonymous. That means that I'd have been wierd in claiming that my work (most of which does not rhyme) was poetry.
My definition of (free verse) poetry would be something like "the expressionist incarnation of literature". Involves clever and often experimental use of words. When done badly it is much the poorer relation to good rhyme. But poor rhyme is abyssmal.
If you want to read a real master of rhyme you couldn't do much better than Dylan Thomas whose work I admire greatly.

[jacks girl]

777 You are very correct and i agree about rhythm but I myself can't get a rhythm if it don't rhyme. If a poem is done well you can all but pat your foot to the timing.

Jacks

[sweet-jay]

You might check with the Poets like Keith Wallis.

Hello Thebigguy,
you are right; i have seen one of his poems on the "front" or home page, and it's great.
thanks