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Haiku An Introduction With the February HaikuWriMo (not so) recently closed, it is a good time for one to be considering what makes a good haiku. Though it is a highly debateable subject, most haiku fans can agree on a few important features of haiku. In this article: 1. The Syllable Count Confusion 2. Brevity and Simplification 3. Duality in haiku 4. Imagery in haiku 5. Modernized/globalized haiku 1. The Syllable-Count Confusion When discussing what something is, sometimes it is beneficial to look at what it is not. Contrary to popular belief, haiku are not necessarily 3 line poems arranged with 5, 7, and 5 syllables. So many aspi

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Rhyme A Brief Introduction Among aspiring poets, rhyme is often overused and misused, and for good reason! It can be a tough thing to get a hold of effectively. Common related problems include forced rhyme and resulting forced structures. So many amateur poets use rhyme as the defining feature of poetry, when what they produce is often just prose with rhyme and line breaks. While rhyme is so often abused in this way, it can and often is a highly effective element of poetry once you get the hang of it. Learn the different aspects of rhyme and remember that you don’t need it every line (unless you’re writing a sonnet or something to

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Summer Haiku WriMo

I. Squealing children play as ravens watch from atop a nearby lamppost II. Off in the corner a spider catches ants as I do other things III. Waiting at the tracks for a train that never ends – the smell of a skunk IV. While on the hillside cows stand in the dry brown grass, slowly not watching V. Ginkgo leaves, alive with summer sun – fireworks! VI. The skull on her top is a friendly pink and has bows tied in its…uhm VII. Bougainvillea sheltering spiders and me – I reach for more tea VIII. Boughs of young willows, heavy with the weight of leaves, dip into the lake VIX. This hot summer da

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Jan 14, 2009

The Well-Versed Project

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Welcome to Well-Versed! In a Nutshell Well-Versed is a project that aims to provide the literature community on deviantART with easily accessible definitions/explanations/examples of various literary elements and tools for poetry. The aim of this project is not to teach the literature community how the rules can be broken, but first how to use the tools to your advantage in your own work. After all, you can't effectively break a rule unless you know what it is and how to use it first! While the focus here is primarily on poetry, these techniques and elements of poetry are also applicable to the prose world as well, so do not hesitate to us

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Apr 7, 2009

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