Poetry

if a poem has no rhyme and no structure is it still a poem (why/why not)?

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Exactly. I think this applies across all creative fields

Many good points raised here - reminds me a bit of that old story of Picasso, learning all the “rules” of painting and form before he eventually broke them all

Yes but imo it’s probably a bad one. You should know the rules before you can break the rules. Despite the poem being unrhymed and unstructured I’d say that someone who  understands the rhetorical devices of poetry but chooses not to use the most basic ones they will still use something - rhythm, onomatopoeia, chiasmus, metonymy etc. Poems are like songs - the good ones stick in your head and you don’t know why until you understand what makes them work. They shouldn’t be just a jumble of words.

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Good point! Well I've never really much paid attention to any poetry rules except for putting them into stanzas lol 🤣

Why not. If you call them poems, they are. They don't have to rhyme. Rhyme is just one tool.

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That's a great question and is often something I have pondered myself 

I've written many poems, but I sometimes wonder if they can truly be considered "poems"

I am bad at rhyming and feel when I try to rhyme my poems, it just.... doesn't go well