~About Poem~

Welcome to the world of artistic writing, sometimes referred to as creative writing. Artistic writing includes many literary genres--essays, poems, short stories, plays, etc. A genre is the type of writing a piece of literature is. Of course, there are the broad categories of prose and poetry, but each of these can be divided more specifically. Types of prose include drama, articles, novels, and short stories while types of poetry include lyric and narrative.
The poem, whether it rhymes or not, is probably the most artistic of all genres.

A poem is a delicate juggling act of rhythms, figurative language, and sometimes rhyme. The poem as an art form is both visual and auditory. A poem will most often have sections, or divisions, that are identified as either stanzas or strophes. Stanzas are divisions of a rhyming poem, and strophes are divisions of a poem that does not rhyme, and may also be known as free verse.

A reader, without reading words, can look at a poem and know it is a poem by its appearance on the page. Likewise, a listener can hear a poem read aloud and know it is a poem because it sounds like one.The earliest poems written in English were ones that rhymed. Even though much modern-day poetry does not rhyme, rhyme is a device that helps to structure a poem and makes it easy to commit the poem to memory.