According to me : Poetry reflects state of mind . ideas or observation and experiences .

1. For better understanding of poetry focus should be on sounds/ phonemes .They are smallest units in phonology comprising vowels and consonants or units of sounds .
2. Poetry works on sound system of stressed sounds called vowels and un stressed called consonants .

3. Each words is combination of vowel and consonant : like

''ON'' O is vowel and ''N'' is consonant ...
Or ''FIT'' here it connects two consonants...

4. Each word contain vowel with consonants which is obvious but how one can know part of word is more stressed or not ... One should observe how many times chin touch the hand (while speaking / pronouncing it should be below the chin ) it tell us how may parts words have .

5. Poetry works on rhyme and meter which includes syllables , homophones and homonyms .

In point ''4'' I have define lil bit about syllables and stressed pattern . Each verse has syllables ... Each syllables is consisted of feet : stressed + unstressed ..

''A syllable is a word or a word segment that is pronounced as a single sound''

Syllable = stressed word (vowel divide the word ) + consonant (mostly unstressed)

Example : Apple ...stressed is on ''a'' so chin will touch the hand when u have pronounced sound ''ap'' and ''pple'' would be pronounced later .

Apple has two syllables : ap+pple ...

6. Vowel sound ''ap'' is stressed and ''pple '' stating with consonant is less stressed . Here ''s'' is stressed syllable and ''U'' is unstressed .

1.Apple = S+U
2.Every = (Eve)S+ (ry ) U

7. Each couplet and all form should have same no. of syllables , otherwise it would be called free verse .

8. Most often Iambic pentameter is used in scheme as Shakespearean`s soliloquy in Hamlet ''To be or not to be "was in five(penta) iambs(syllables ) .


9. One can start poetry with 2 or 3 iambs/syllables for convenience ...

10. There are many forms / genres in poetry but simple on is Sonnet and difficult one is Ode .In ode free verse was used but Keats used Iambic penta meter scheme for odes as well.