Questions tagged [poetry]
Short form writing, often focused on the aesthetics of words as much as the meaning. This tag should be used for any questions relating to poems, including poetry formatting and technique, poetry critiques, and the publishing of poetry.
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Writing Verse vs Immitation for Strengthening Verbal Skills
My verbal skills seem very weak. Often, I cannot write flowing, rhythmic prose, if ever. But I know I succeeded at least once in the past, although in a very short piece, which is not published, is ...
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How to format a dialogue with quotes of poetry?
I'm working on a typeset of Dorothy L. Sayers' novel Clouds of Witness. Sometimes the characters will quote poetry when they're speaking:
'Hurray!' said Peter.
'Then downwards from the steep hill's ...
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When the rhyme scheme is ABAB, can A=B or is that insanity?
Hear me out. My default answer is no, no it cannot. The very definition of a rhyme scheme requires that the different letters represent different rhyming sounds. However, in every standard definition ...
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Publishing a book of poetry: Which resource to choose?
I have been writing poetry for a long time, and I had an idea of publishing my works (I did so twice in the past, but in Russian, so it was a different experience). I have a number of works on ...
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Ghosted by literary magazine?
I recently got published for the first time in a literary magazine for my poem. They're not very big, but have a considerate readership which is alright as a first for me.
Anyway, this said magazine ...
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How do I punctuate a long character story in a poem structured with stanzas?
Indenting without quotes won't work because it will be a children's book with stanzas on different pages. It is a character telling a story with very few "he said" included...most of it is ...
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What's the difference between Arabic prosody and English rhythm?
I don't understand English rhythm and its law; and see English poems and still nothing. However some poets like Edward Fitzgerald have poems based on Persian (Arabic) prosody and I get its rhythm but ...
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Using unusual grammatical wording to refer to people
All that will die tomorrow
Is whom I loved and will still love
So I was wondering if this is a common thing in poetry. You refer to people as "all that", and then use whom, which creates a ...
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Is stating a completely false fact something many writers do?
Is stating a completely false fact something many writers do? I heard that doing so is considered to be poetic license and it allows poets to deviate from strict adherence to factual accuracy in order ...
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Why do artists make grammar mistakes in their songs?
I would be deeply grateful if you answer my question. I'm currently writing my thesis about standard and non-standard English grammar and the main problem of my work is why artists make grammar "...
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Formatting poetry collection and formatting standards
What does the industry use? I thought about just copy pasting the lyrics into a file format and then appending them in one file, but I am wondering if most publisher use some kind of software to put ...
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Is poetry written along the known song legal from the view point of copyright?
I wrote some (humorous) poetry that uses a known song as a pattern. The poetry could be sung instead of the original words of the song but I do not have any musical background to perform such a ...
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Unsure how to go about referencing/paying homage to a thematically similar text
I'm currently on the fourth draft of my novel and am at the stage at last of getting to go sentence by sentence and approach things on quite a molecular level. My book is a sci-fi reimagining of the ...
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Is it possible to adapt ancient graeco-roman prosodic styles, forms, principles, modifications into modern verses?
Is it possible to adapt ancient graeco-roman prosodic styles, forms, principles, modifications into modern verses?
Does anybody know good authors who write in vernacular or modern languages with greek ...
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