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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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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Commas/clauses within Haiku phrases?

I am experimenting with Haiku. My sentiment is "I used to count the minutes until we next met, now I count the days since you left". I first looked at something like: Glad minutes until Our ...
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Where can we publish our poetry preprints?

I have some poems and want to share them on the internet, and am checking if there are some repositories like what we have for scholarly works (for example, arXiv is for mathematical preprints). I ...
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Resources on All Kinds of Poetry/Verse

For a previous question, in which I inquired about writing prose with rhythm, I received an answer saying this: that learning to write poetry should help, from strict-verse poetry to abstract free-...
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How do you use interjections effectively in poetry?

How do you use interjections effectively in poetry? I am wondering when and where you can use the interjection O. One thing I noticed is that O is often optional, and is used when we refer to a person ...
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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-to-sentence and approach things on quite a molecular level. My book is a sci-fi reimagining of the ...
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Versification of a drama

I have originally written a drama in prose. However, now I am considering writing it in verse. Thus, I have the following questions: 1.) Is this common practice (writing drama in verse)? 2.) Is there ...
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Is there a situation where you shouldn't omit the article (a, the) in lyrics?

Is there a situation where you shouldn't omit the article (a, the) in lyrics? Sometimes, you have 1 syllable you want to remove on a line, so you remove a or the, but sometimes doing so modifies the ...
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Can you help me understand what a "lyrical short story" is?

What are the minimum requirements for a lyrical short story to be a story? If it is plotless what separates the lyrical short story from random chatter?
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