How to Write a Poem

The thought comes foremost;  only then  the rhyme. --

though sometimes rhythm  doth precede them each.

[For a satiric presentation of the opposite advice, click here:

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/07/how-would-u-like-2-b-poet.html ]

[For a complex experiment in rhythm-driven verse,
check this out:
http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2012/10/swift-as-hunter-is-subtle-reindeer-is.html
Note:  The interword spacing is careful and essential,
delineating both the delivery (like cantillation marks in the Koran)
and giving hints to the structure of a syntax  newly invented for this verse.]

[For another example in which contrapuntal metres

 point up a counterpoint of thought:

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2011/04/taken-in-adultery.html ]