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What is your most heavily use poetic technique,form,etc???Answer question however you like.

in Poetry Discussion

My most heavily use poetically technique is rhyme.

Any cool techniques you Covers heavily use?????

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Yvonne Calder

Oct 22, 2021

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I don't naturally rhyme so worked at rhyming; rhyming is the most obvious way to create rhythm, creating rhymes assisted my rythmic development. Now I want to focus on irony, ( saying one thing meaning another) and symbols ( a figurative substation of a part for a whole).

Nov 15, 2021

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@Yvonne Calder Apologies for replying very late.I thought I reply to you before.

Symbols and irony are great ways to add further meaning in poem.

Looking forward hear your symbols and irony in your future poems!!!!!

Marc Brimble

Oct 17, 2021

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I like to throw a shocking word in now and again or try to think of some strange metaphor. I only started writing back in January so I'm just trying out loads of stuff.

Oct 17, 2021

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@Marc A Brimble one of best ways to write poetry,simply try as many techniques as you can.

Especially when your just starting out.

Shocking words can create awesome metaphors,think metaphors are most use techniques.Very cool.

Shen Friebe

Oct 17, 2021

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Rhyming is a great little gimmick I like to pull out of my hat of tricks when it is called for. And i think anyone who uses it well is bound to impress at least one reader out there. I think rhyming is a powerful one, not only because it requires a deep thought process, but there is an art behind stringing lines together and making them connect in more ways than one. As a writer, if you execute this well, the sense of accomplish you feel is huge. You also feel a bit of a connection to all the poets who came before you- literary legends and all- since rhyming poetry is often perceived to be the 'archetypal' or classic style of poetry. Beyond the self however, it also has a particular affect on the reader, in which they become impressed by the poem twice: once by the message it is conveying, and secondly, by the technique of rhyming itself.

I also like lacing my poems with metaphors, recurring motifs and images/themes, alliteration, double-speak or double-meanings (a big fav of mine), playing with homophones and with the iambic pentameter when I feel my poem requires a bit more structure and rhythm. I'd be curious to here the thoughts of others.

Oct 17, 2021

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@Shen Friebe Same here,curious to know what other techniques poets love to use.

Thank you for bringing this to my awareness.About rhyming poetry being more classical style.Perhaps thats why I've been stagnated lolol.Just trying to be like literary legends I wouldn't know about lolol.In any case,when done well,theres a sense of accomplishment and air of confidence for pulling off something difficult,especially nowadays in world of statements.

Now when you mention double meaning,do you mean a poem being ambiguous???

Recently,I've been playing alot with alliteration and when I read that poem at an open mic,was most fun I had reading poem.Cannot help but think about Dr.Seuss and his whimsical nature with his approach of literary works.I may play with recurring motifs,especially if I'm working on an epic,although this recent one is more an analysis on my experience on certain topic,I may have play with recurring motifs.in past epics.

Perhaps I shall play with metaphors next.Also,I prefer structure over free verse,since alot simpler to follow.

Although that can be discussion for another time.

You appear very knowledgeable in regards to poetry.

Amazing to have you on the Cove.

Shen Friebe

Oct 20, 2021

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@Bendy Nguyen Double meaning as in double entendres, sentences or metaphors with more than one interpretation or meaning. They can sometimes be ambiguous, but often explicit in one meaning, and symbolic in another. It seems like you have a lot of knowledge too! A lot of very particular ideas. It will be good to track your process here at the Cove.