ricross

Well, most poetry these days is free verse, but this doesn't even qualify as that. She basically just breaks up the lines however she wants to and talks about vague emotions and thinks that makes it a poem. I hate people who think poetry has no rules. EVERYTHING has rules, even if you choose to break them.

Ah. Right.

The poem was written for an assignment in a poetry class I was taking.
The form (examples of forms include sonnets, villanelles, limericks, etc.) is Portuguese, and goes...
Take 4 lines from somebody else's poem, and use it as the 1st 4 lines of yours
Follow with 4 10-line stanzas, the 10th line of each being a line from your chosen 1st 4 lines in consecutive order... and lines 6, 9 and 10 of each stanza rhyme.

Free verse is great, but forms are infinitely more challenging to me. I treat them like crossword puzzles.