I’m a poet and I know it:
Look at my feet, they show it—
They’re Longfellow’s
In my youth, I wrote lots of poetry.
It’s a good, succinct form of expression, especially if you write longhand, and you want to say something while avoiding writer’s cramp.
Most of my early stuff rhymed, because that’s the form teachers concentrated on in grade and high school. If you’re an English major in college, you get heavy doses of the classic poets, like Shakespeare, Pope, Dryden, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Poe, Wordsworth, and yes, Longfellow too.
As I got older and learned more, I broke away from rhyme, trying free and blank verse. But I’ve always appreciated the craft of rhyme, and I still enjoy coming up with new rhyme schemes.
I’ve published several hundred poems over the years. (You can find some examples by clicking this link.). Though I now write mostly prose—because poetry has its limitations —I still dabble in the form now and then.
Link to:
Rhyming poems
I Think that I Shall Never See
Non-rhyming poems