Using Structure in Poetry

tools of the trade for various forms of poetry, a few thoughts

A. Christine Myers
5 min readNov 13, 2019

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I like to think of poetry as living somewhere on the road between prose and music. Real music, I mean, with rhythm and melody and harmony. Poetry is its verbal cousin.

There are certain poems — some pieces in blank verse or free verse, for example — that are on the prose end of the…

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