Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make
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Good list. The first example is great.

in the wood there was a tree.
It numbered one, not two or three.


Obviously the forced rhyme, but there is something a bit self aware about it, which makes it sound deliberately silly, as if the rest will be something like...

But is it right or fair or good,
a single tree should be a wood?

Oh dear, that's all over the place... But you get the pointSmile or not... I don't know.
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RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - by rowens - 04-05-2013, 11:42 PM
RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - by rowens - 04-06-2013, 05:06 AM
RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - by shemthepenman - 01-29-2014, 03:23 AM
RE: Five Common Mistakes That Novice Poets Make - by Cannotwrite - 06-21-2020, 09:10 PM



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