So I think basic education system failed me. I remember in school, we’re taught that poems needed to rhyme and that it needed a pattern for each verse. But then.. there’s free form poetry and there’s spoken word poetry..
What makes poetry different from descriptive sentences and from songs?
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A poem is a piece of art made from the sound of words. Kind of like lyrics to a song, but the words themselves make the music.
The words’ meanings can be important too, but like song lyrics sometimes they aren’t terribly sensible out of context.
There’s also a subset of this where the appearance of the words on the page form a piece of visual art.
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