Writers Asylum Forum poetry , but how , i need help

any one know a good place online where I can look up the rules and regulations of various styles of poetry. I never did pay too close attention to poety in english class, I never did like to write because it was too constricting. But now I am at a loss because I am trying to pirate poetry, or piretry as I would like to call it. I got a notion I would do it today. All part of getting into your character's mind.

So any help would be greatly appreciated

Try Limericks... they're sorta like this:

Rhyme scheme / Number of syllables:
A / nine
A / nine
B / five
B / five
A / nine

Example:

There once was a Pirate from Tucket
Who met a ninja and said "f**k it"
She was quite brutal
Usually cute too
So write a story and don't muck it!

Ok, so it really wasn't the best, but it's late and you get the idea. Yep, I'm sure English pirates were a great bunch of limerick writers!

By the way, I love the term "pietry." I think that just kicks a*s. Have you tried googling "poetic forms?"

JR

Holy s**t that was a great piece of piretry wish I had thought of it. so lymerics huh, thanks for actually replying to this by the way Its been on here for a while and I finally just started doing my piretry and came up with my owns rule , which I wrote down some where , which I havent completed yet I dont think

::biggrin::

I've never followed the rules of old poetry. The way you want it to sound is the way you want to write it. If I want the reader to read it slowly I seperate the words when I want them to read it all together, there are no commas, and so on. I think my method makes my poetry more original. Its not like the philosophers of history had someone telling them how to make a masterpeice. Besides, when poetry gets to formal it sounds like it was written by a third grader.

For me poetry is about describing the feeling of something rather than just telling it. Which I believe makes poetry in many cases universal and relates to the deeper part of oneself. This is only what I use it for. If I was to do poetry about pirates I would talk about physical privation, blood, adrenaline, the simple joy of living from moment to moment, the gratification of taking what I want when I want it, grasping for bigger and better dreams over the horizon, and the thrill of hunting other men.

Sara