Do poems have to have rhythm or rhyme?
2 Answers
Mar 23, 2018
Songs have rhythm and poems have rhyme.
Explanation:
Even though a song is a type of a poem, the song has to have a rhythm to it for it to be able actually be pronounced as a song. A poem needs some rhyming to it, but it doesn't need a lot of rhyming to it and does not need rhythm to it.
Mar 23, 2018
No.
Explanation:
Free verse poetry does not have rhyme or rhythm (but it's still art!).
Example (Fog by Carl Sandburg):
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
