Traditionally, a poem sticks to a definite form, style and a set of characteristics. Lines are grouped into stanzas, or verses, and poets make deliberate decisions about word choices, and the ...

How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes and stanzas, whereas open form poetry is freeform. How to identify form in poetry Learn how how ...

John Agard’s Checking Out Me History is an example of an open form poem but one that still has a shape and structure. It is divided into stanzas - poetic paragraphs - and includes some rhyme and ...