Poetry

Poetry is a form of literature that uses rhythmic qualities of language. It has a long history dating back to the Epic of Gilgamesh. Most poetry evolved from folk songs or the need to retell oral epics, such as the Odyssey. Ancient attempts to define poetry focused on the usage of speech in rhetoric, drama, and song. Later attempts used more repetition, verse form, and rhyme. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been though of as "fundamental creative act employing language."
Figures of speech such as metaphor and simile are used to compare things that are commonly known by people. Some poetry types are specific to particular cultures and genres and respond to characteristics of the language in which the poet writes. The rejection of traditional forms and structures for poetry that began in the first half of the 20th century coincided with a questioning purpose and meaning of traditional definitions of poetry and of distinctions between poetry and prose. The methods for creating poetry vary among languages and poetic traditions. Languages are often described as having timing set primarily by accents, syllables, or moras. Japanese is a mora-timed language. Syllable timed languages include: Latin, French and Spanish, while English, Russian, and German are stress-timed languages. Depending on which language is used, is the difference between poetry among these countries.
Rhyme, alliteration, assonance, and consonance are ways of creating repetitive patterns of sound. They may be used as an independent structural element in a poem, to reinforce rhythmic patterns, or as an ornamental element.
In conclusion, poetry has many different forms, and while it may have rules on certain types of poems, poetry has a wide range of structures that can work for anybody. "Anyone can be a poet"