Analyzing Poem

 When you analyze a poem, there are many essential and important elements a poem should include. Many people when they think of poems, the typical poem in everyone's mind is a smooth flow and it would include rhymes at the end of the sentences. That is not true for all poems, not all poems have to have a rhyme to it. When I analyze a poem, I would read through the poem many times, and try to define the hidden meanings behind the author's pen. I would understand what the author is trying to talk about before I do anything else. The point of reading poems out, is to get the punctuations correct, where the emphasis should be, and where you should pause.I would  begin picturing myself and putting myself as the same position as the author is. I would try to make me the person trying to speak it, and understand how they feel. I believe this is the most important step of analyzing a poem, understanding the material you are reading. If I did not understand the poem, then it would just be words and sentences to me. So I will try to understand the morals or the messages the poem is trying to deliver. Then I start looking for the printed things, such as rhymes, between lines and lines, and then if there were metaphors, or similes. If I was lucky enough, I would be able to come across a poem with alliterations within it. The diction of the story is also very important, I would determine the age group and audience the author is aiming for with the tone and diction of the poem. I would try to also find things like, irony, sarcasm, onomatopoeia, all these English crucial things could make the poem different. Once I am done with all this, I am ready to write an outline or even paraphrasing it.