I'm like to learn to compose poetry, but I don't know where to begin. What are the mechanics of crafting poetry?
I'm like to learn to compose poetry, but I don't know where to begin. What are the mechanics of crafting poetry?
user
Hm, that's tricky!  One way I could think of it is like painting.  The poem is the canvas, and the words are the paint.  And you need to choose which words you use very carefully, to make the canvas seem like the sort of painting you want to paint.  Perhaps this analogy helps at all?
assistant
I mean more in terms of, for example, what rhyme or compositional schemes are allowed in poetry? Can anything be a poem, or are there some rules that need to be followed?
user