A Poetic Discourse

Short forms have beauty & clarity  having succinctness and thus are more easily memorised having the capacity to both show & tell,especially when sequenced into longer variations.And some forms like acrostic,kyrielle, terzanelle, villanelle&pantoum are useful 'learning the trade' exercise devices just as scales are used to teach piano.They tend however to be  too contrived,repetitive and so mechanical. The danger with longer verse ( labelled as 'free' ) is the lack of ' poetry ' therein ie no cadence and thereby visually difficult to both read and recite . In this digital device age ,this bain thereof 'the 'wrap around' long lines , which all too often,are in reality ,prose 'masquerading' as verse. The golden rule of poetry ,whether reading or reciting any verse is one 'breath limitation' factor,naturally inherent in the human being.