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A non-rhyming poem is exactly like it sounds, just a poem with no rhyming in it.  

 

This is trickier to write than it sounds, since most of us only read and write poems that have rhyming in it.

 

Non-rhyming poems have a lot of freedom to be as long as you want, or about any topic that you want.  It's up to you and your creativity!  

 

Here are just a few examples:

 

 

Non-Rhyming Poem

Theme in Yellow

by Carl Sandburg

 

I spot the hills
With yellow balls in autumn.
I light the prairie cornfields
Orange and tawny gold clusters
And I am called pumpkins.
On the last of October
When dusk is fallen
Children join hands
And circle round me
Singing ghost songs
And love to the harvest moon;
I am a jack-o’-lantern
With terrible teeth
And the children know
I am fooling.

 

(This poem appears in the book Chicago Poems)

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