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asing. If you read it out …s of posts.) Basically, make sure (if you want a meter) that the poem sticks to something pleasing. If you read it out loud and stumble with the rhythm, adjust the words to keep the rhythm. A word on rhyming: forced rhymes do not add value to your poem.

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Deborah Barchi
1 min readApr 25, 2020

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Thank. Like the idea of clapping it out to test the meter.

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Deborah Barchi has recently retired from her career as a librarian and now has time to read, explore nature, and write poetry and essays.

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