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6/14/2017 10:46:03 PM
How important is rhyming?	I always feel like I need to rhyme, at least some of the time. I think so that I can feel "like I'm doing it right" or that I'm a "proper poet". Maybe this comes from school and learning about all the biggest like Shakespeare and...Shakespeare. As famous writers and they all rhymed. I also think that I think that my poetry benefits from it but I have no actual proof of this. I like doing free verse and narrative the most and that's what comes most naturally for me. So questions are, how important is rhyming? And, in what situations is it best used?
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6/14/2017 10:46:03 PM

I always feel like I need to rhyme, at least some of the time. I think so that I can feel "like I'm doing it right" or that I'm a "proper poet". Maybe this comes from school and learning about all the biggest like Shakespeare and...Shakespeare. As famous writers and they all rhymed. I also think that I think that my poetry benefits from it but I have no actual proof of this.
I like doing free verse and narrative the most and that's what comes most naturally for me.

So questions are, how important is rhyming? And, in what situations is it best used?

pages: 1