01-17-2013, 07:26 AM
(01-16-2013, 11:41 PM)monablackbird Wrote: Chosen like fresh market fruit,Hi Mona,
Kicked from the field by careless boots,
Already bruised on one side, -- try "bruised already" instead
Pumped full up with pill popping pesticides. -- if you remove "full up" it will work better, meter-wise
How many did they feed you? -- for meter you need an extra beat -- remember that meter is not about syllables so much as it's about the accents falling in the right places, so to fit here you need "how many (somethings) did they feed you", when (somethings) is two syllables, DUM-da
Don’t you know you’re not allowed to
Entertain voices in heads? (awkward here or is it just me?) -- not just youMaybe "talk to voices in your head"
Shouldn’t you most definitely be dead? -- another line too long to fit the pattern -- my suggestion is dreadful, but you'll get the idea: "shouldn't you be done and dead"
Lonely people can’t reach sleep,
We’ll make out all night in my Jeep.
Take two more anti-psychotics,
Promise not to steal your electronics. -- for meter, try "Promise I won't steal your electronics"
Too much soul for a nickname,
They can never call your heart lame. -- these lines are awkward and need revising as it's clear you've allowed the rhyme to dictate your choices
Tune me like a cithara,
Strum another chord in my viscera. -- nice and juicy
Not going to drive away,
There’s no bedroom I’d rather stay. -- these lines need attention as you're forcing the words into unnatural grammar to match the rhyme scheme
I’ll pull the seams together, -- maybe "I will"
We don’t have to be broken forever.
This is a good experiment in getting rhyme to work for you. With practise you'll find that rhyming becomes more instinctive, especially when you work with meter. It most certainly doesn't limit your choices -- what it does is forces discipline. Getting rhyme to work without being the most obvious part of your poem is a challenge, but one well worth undertaking. You'll find that end-stopped "chiming" rhyme effect is lessened if you vary your punctuation and enjambment (run-on sentences) rather than forcing each line to be a discrete unit.
It could be worse

Maybe "talk to voices in your head"