Omolola, this day I undress my love for you with the moon and stars as silent witness my soul trembles …my soul kneels too take my heart! take me, my princess or Omolola, I am here to say I love you Do not doubt me, I swear I really do Because you are my one and only And with you alone I want to be LEARN NOT TO RHYME BEFORE YOU RHYME Put candidly, I think every poet who wants to write rhyming poems needs first to learn how to write without rhymes. First step for a poet hoping to pen good rhymes is to develop his/her power of metaphor and imagery creation — appealing to all the senses of the reader. The danger of failing to take that first step is that you’ll write many poems whose beauty only ends at end of the lines, just the rhyming sound. A good poem you might say, after all, it has good rhymes, but we could achieve the same message with better imagery and better overall appeal (and even better rhymes). Rhyming is a device that adds beauty to a poem, but when you chase it alone, you lose some of the beauty that other poetic devices can give your poem. Beyond rhymes, what many people write as poems are just watery stanzas which are mostly wedged with rhymes that are mere clichés. So, to rhyme well, work on your imagery, read unrhymed poems, write unrhymed poems and get deep into the use of metaphors —and other poetic devices. Then you will have very good rhymed-poems. ... Excerpt from my lecture: LEARN NOT TO RHYME BEFORE YOU RHYME See more at: college.wrr.ng/learn-rhyme-rhyme/
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