Poetry Forum

I really like how the ideas in this poem are so down to earth and straightforward and how, for me, they contradicted my preconceptions of what this poem was going to be like. The first two lines prepared me for a fairly lofty, high- brow and wordy poem, but the third line pleasantly swept the rug fr...

I really like how the rhyme scheme sort of pushes you onwards through the poem and how well it works with the metre to make it all flow beautifully. I do agree with smiffy that the final rhyme repetitions perhaps detract from the poem, it just doesn't seem to sound so well crafted as the rest of it ...