![]() ![]() That isn’t to say that all rhyming in poetry is bad it has its time and place, but you should never rhyme simply for the sake of it. Vizzini from “The Princess Bride” may have been inconceivably mean, but he did have a valid point when he told Fezzik to stop rhyming. Clichés might be convenient to use, and some are easy to find rhymes for, but the use of clichés will make your readers turn away the moment they stumble upon those trite and tired truisms. Use them, and you steal away your poetry’s true potential. ![]() ![]() Avoid ClichésĬlichés are someone else’s words. You could also take a walk and jot down how the sight of certain things makes you feel. As an exercise, try writing down all the items you can think of that you associate with a certain emotion. In the mind and heart of the reader, it goes back to being something abstract. Imagery, like idioms, takes an abstract idea, such as an emotion, and turns it into something concrete. You can tell someone “I’m sad” a million times, but the person will have a hard time empathizing if the words don’t have anything to back them up. ![]()
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