4 Best Poetic Devices Every Poetry Writer or Reader Must Know

Read our guide that covers poetic devices with everything from rhyme to metaphor; if you’re going to read or write poetry, this helpful guide is for you!

Have you ever found yourself wondering what makes a poem a poem? It’s not always the fact that the lines rhyme. Amanda Gorman, the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, wrote one of her most famous poems, ”We Rise,” with only a handful of lines that rhyme, so it can’t be rhyming alone. The answer to what makes poetry is the use of poetic ...