Beginning Rhyme: April 15, 2024
3:30-5pm ET US, 8:30-10pm UK
Beginner poets often want to get to grips with rhyme.
And there are reasons why rhyming is a great idea when you’re starting off.
Rhyme is a time-honored tool, and by learning it, you take your first steps into joining the poetic tradition. But it’s also a great way to help create the sonic mood or “feel” of a poem, to highlight important ideas, and to generate interesting and original phrases and images.
Moreover, rhyme can be especially helpful to beginners for the way that it helps to structure a poem, giving you something to hold on to! It’s also a great way to start learning how sound works in poetry.
But there are also problems with rhyme that beginners often fall into, such as:
Not knowing about different kinds of rhyme or when to use them
Bossy rhyme, where the rhyme dominates meaning
Lines that are sound stiff and predictable.
In this workshop I’m going to help you dodge these problems, and get the gold!
The class is a brief but thorough introduction to how to use rhyme with skill, so it enhances your poems and adds to your growth as a poet.
We will cover:
How to make rhymes that sound great, instead of clunky
When to use different kinds of rhymes
How to find lots of rhymes, so you don’t get stuck
Using rhyme for inspiration
Making your lines flexible and lively, so they can “sing.”
So if you’d like to learn more about rhyme, I hope you’ll join us!
No experience or preparation is needed, but please come prepared to write. Thank you!