Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
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I think poetry should be read very much like prose, except that the line breaks should be acknowledged somehow.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable.
Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for.
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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