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Find yourself an audience. Here's a situation where it's impossible to guess based on your description. We have no way of knowing if your poem is a hot mess, a psychedelic journey, or an literary...
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System
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2019-12-20T00:40:34Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T10:31:37Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
**Find yourself an audience.** Here's a situation where it's impossible to guess based on your description. We have no way of knowing if your poem is a hot mess, a psychedelic journey, or an literary analysis adventure. Maybe it's brilliant, or maybe it just needs a good editor. So find friends and family who enjoy poetry and will be honest with you. Join a writing group. Take a poetry writing class. Bribe a writing teacher. Whatever it takes to get people to sit down and listen. Read your poem out loud. It's the best way to test rhythm and call out awkwardness. Even reading it out loud to yourself will help with that. This is how you'll find out if all those meters are discordant or a symphony. Make your revisions then repeat. And again.
#1: Imported from external source
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2019-01-09T07:08:53Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 4