Poetry Rules from Love That Dog

Here are the poetry rules we are learning about from Love That Dog
1: Anything can be a poem
2: You just have to make short lines
3: You can leave white space
4: Poems can have a beat (same syllables per line)
5: You can get ideas for poems from nursery rhymes or other things that you know
6:You can show brackets to show someone is whispering in the poem
7: Poems can be visualized
8: Poems can be short or long
9: You can use punctuation to show different expressions
10: Poems can be a list of questions or answers
11: Capital words emphasize the word
12: Poems can be personal (reveal feelings)
13: Poems can have different voices
14: Poems do not have to rhyme
15: An important word can be by itself on a line
16: Choose a really powerful title
17: Different voices should look different in the poem
18: The colour of the paper helps to tell the poem
19: You can use sound effects in a poem
20: Words can take on the shape they represent
21: If you want to use an idea from a poem, you should write Inspired by _______(poet's name)
22: Similes are important (like or as)