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: How do we count syllable at the end of a line when there's a comma? I am an able-bodied person and she is a horse, 15 A big blue horse, a really big horse, 12 Like the one we see in
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: Is there a name for a poem with rhyme scheme ABABCB? I have just started writing a new poem, and I am thinking about rhyme schemes. The one that jumps out to me looking at the few lines
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: How do you suggest in a poem that the narrator has dementia or a mental illness? How do you suggest in a poem that the narrator has dementia or a mental illness? I am thinking of using
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: Is there any word or phrases that can replace greed and greedy? Apparently, greed and greedy are weak words in poetry, so you can't use them, but what other words would you use? The pirate
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: One liners in poems and ways of creating variations I usually like to write one-liners when I can't think of anything particularly good to write. These one-liners are somewhat independent sentences
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: Software for Typing Scanscion Is there software specially designed for typing scanscion symbols synced with the words below them? In Word for example, inserting a 2 x 1 matrix , and increasing
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: Can we omit "the" in poems even if it makes the sentence nonsensical? Can we omit "the" in poems even if it makes the sentence nonsensical? For example: They remembered the taste of
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: How can you express sadness without using any word non-figuratively related to sadness? How can you express sadness without using any word non-figuratively related to sadness? I have been told
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: Using colors as words He was clad with white and silver bracelets. Can we use colors such as white and use them as a substitute for other words like "white clothes"? He was clad
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: Examples of different metrical feet/accents (scansion) I enjoy writing poetry in strict meter (example: iambic pentameter), but I keep running into an issue with word choice. I lack a reference
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: Republishing a poem from a lost journal I am not a professional poet. A few years a poem of mine was published and reviewed by the South Asian Ensemble journal. This journal no longer exists,
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: Describe the combination of eye shadow and tear In this picture, the woman's tear has turned black because it was mixed with her eye shadow. How would you describe it in a dramatic way?
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: Create Character that Use's Real-Life Poet's Work I am attempting to write novel. Character is loosely based on real-life Poet who lived and died in foreign country (b. 1919, d. 2005). I would
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: Is it acceptable to render poems embedded in prose in two columns? I am working on a book is going through the typesetting stage for self-publishing. In order to keep page count down, is it
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: How to find an editor to my poems? I have written some poems, is there a way to get them edited before I send them to publish. What services can be preferred for editing by a Publishing
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: Where should question marks be put in fragmented lines of poems? For example, in the lines: Say what good really is a life, When so thoroughly deprived of joy Is my restless mind,
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: Is there a name for the technique in songs/poems, where the rhyming pattern primes the listener for a certain line, which never comes? Usually used for comedic purposes, for example in Shrek:
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: How to display a duet in lyrics? I wonder if someone can tell me whether there is a convention when laying out a lyric to show different parts (or even a chorus). In my novel, there are
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: What's the best way to publish a small anthology of poetry? As the title said I'm seeking advice for publishing a small anthology of poetry. I have 28 poems and may possibly be adding somewhere
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: Using “sparkling†as a diminutive of “spark†in a poem How would you react if you saw the word “sparkling†being used as a diminutive of “spark†in a poem? Although poetry does
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: Revision secrets for keeping the meter and improving the beat I sometimes write poetry. The creative process for the first draft can be summarized in these steps: I first choose a global structure
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: Are these marketing hacks good for poetry websites? I've got a couple of poetry websites and I would like to bring more traffic to them. I have been thinking about exchanging links with other
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: Are there specific rules about caesura that restrict us where we can place them? A caesura is a slight pause that's important in poetry, because for example alexandrines require a caesura in
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: How to transition from poetry to song-writing? I've written poetry since I was nine, and I would say I'm pretty good at it. I also really like music, and I can create simple melodies that
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: Making science for toddlers easy to remember I have been intending to create a book for toddlers with basic scientific notions in it. Most books for this target readership that I have seen
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: Publishing Poetry (I searched combined tags for publishing & poetry, and only found a few older questions, detailed below.) So - Spring 2019 - where do poets publish now? Is it all self-publish,
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: Is there a "writer's room" for poetry? Is poetry always a solo endeavor? TV scriptwriting is classically done in a Writer's Room, where the show-runner outlines the main plot/character beats for
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: Poetry when unstructured? Like most kids, I went through the All Poetry Must Rhyme phase. Then a little later in school, rhyme was less essential (especially in English, a less rhyme-compatible
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: How can I incorporate poetry techniques to improve my prose? My first question on the site was How do I stop using 'the' to start sentences so much? , One of the answers said:
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: Using elision in poetry I am seriously wondering what the limits are concerning the use of elision. It seems from the definition that elision is the omission of one vowel, consonant or syllable:
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: Using a possessive pronoun before using its antecedent in a poem I was seriously wondering if it's a problem to use the antecedent, which is "Mr Spooner", after the possessive pronoun
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: How can we incorporate poems in a novel? I am not sure if this is true, but I heard there were short poems in the beginning of each chapter in Lord of the Rings. Although, this could be
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: Do we need to make consistent use of archaic English in our poem/novel? If you use an old expression like "by a many", do you need to make it consistent and use old expressions throughout
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: How to validate a new form of poetry? I know a writer, who claims to have developed his own style of poetry, called Mirror Alphoppbet poetry. This new style looks a bit odd to me but he
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: Scansion tool for checking my meter Are there any software tools available that will help me dissect my meter? I have always been extremely poor at scansion and while my writing doesn't suffer
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: As a new poet, where can I find help from a professional to judge my work? I often write short poems and quotes here: https://www.mirakee.com/atd, but I really want to hear from someone professional
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: When should we use an ellipsis in a poem instead of a comma or a dot? The quote come from the poem Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley: I met a traveller from an antique land,
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: Writing a well rounded lyrics with incredible musicality and incredible poetry Most songs use very simple language that resonate within their readers. They use short sentences that are simple and
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: What to look for when criticizing poetry? A recent question got me thinking about how to criticize poetry well and I realized I am not very good at it. I can do themes, and that's about
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: How would I extend a line in poetry? I'm writing a villanelle as a school project and one of my lines is too short. Can somebody give me tips on how to extend the line?
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