Forum: Writers


Subject: "My soul is sleeping" By me 8-p

pictakr opened this issue on Apr 26, 2003 ยท 3 posts


Crescent posted Sat, 03 May 2003 at 12:02 PM

The tumbling emotions are done well, and most of the rhymes are smoothly done, but there's a few lines that I find jarring:

Anything can be a'lerk
What is a lerk? Is this a typo?

This has been to long
This has been too long (Spelling/usage error.)

I begin to whelp
I'm not sure that the usage of whelp is correct here. I know that poetry can play with word meaning, but it seems more of a forced rhyme than a new twist on the word.

The one thing that I'd suggest is to make a few of your lines longer so the pacing changes in the poem. A poem composed of a lot of short lines can feel tiring after a while for the reader. Another possibility is to chop it up into stanzas, so the white space provides the reader with breathing space.

Thanks for sharing your poem, and welcome to the Writers' Forum!