> I tend to agree, though unlike eric I wouldn't
> actually freak out. :-). To me a poem isn't a
> poem if it doesn't have at least SOME elements
> of poetic device like meter, alliteration,
> assonance, consonance, rhyming, etc. If it
> doesn't have any of these, it is not poetry but
> prose arranged on the page to masquerade as
> poetry.

I feel exactly the same way, except to an absurd degree (I'm a real freak about some things). I wrote a poem about it (structured and rhymed, of course) and put it up on FanFiction.net.

This is not to say that if it's unstructured and unanythinged it's ungood, because there have been some really good pieces out there that didn't have order.

They just weren't poems.

-eric "No, my poem's not worth searching for" sleator
Wed 24 Jan A.D. 2001