Re-vision of Poetry

Re-vision, or look at it again, baby!

Trying to be an objective bystander of your own work,
answer the following questions:
1. Does your subject or theme develop clearly?
2. Do your words provide a snapshot of your object or idea?
3. Have you included an appeal to some or all of the five senses: hearing,
smelling, touching, tasting, seeing?
4. Have you created a fresh, springy, unexpected simile or metaphor that
WORKS?
5. How about MUSIC? Does the beat or rhythm of your words
(meter)flow effectively?
Can you find alliteration (repetition of initial consonant sounds) and
assonance (repetition of vowel sounds)? If not, can you change some
words to inject assonance or alliteration?
6. What about your line lengths?
Are they speaking in a way you want them to?
7. Look at your line breaks – Do the lines end with high impact words
(nouns and verbs), as opposed to articles (a, an, the) or prepositions
(to, for)? Do they end with musical rhythm or rhyme?
8. Finally, are you satisfied with the results, truly?
No, really satisfied?
What's still bugging you?
What would you change?
TRY IT! You'll never know until you try.

Adapted from - San Diego Jewish Academy High School Humanities, www.writedesignonline.com