Quote Originally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy View Post
If I may opine, poetry, to me, is more than word on a page; it's about meter.
If the Internet has taught me anything (including the OP's poem as an example), it's that poetry is "a series of couplets written with a 5th grade vocabulary."

Alexander Pope would have responded to the OP's poem with this parody critiquing predictable couplet rhyming schemes:

Quote Originally Posted by Teh Pope lolnoAlexander
Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze,"
In the next line, it "whispers through the trees;"
If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep,"
The readers threatened (not in vain) with "sleep."
PS WHAI WUZ TEH MUSE'S PLAYING SO DEAR