If writing prose is getting boring,
If each new tale keeps getting worse,
To send your reader’s thoughts a’soaring,
Just try a novel writ in verse.
Verse novel it is called quite often.
Your muse’s heart you’ll have to soften,
For writing thus will take more time,
To work in meters, feet, and rhyme.
Free verse or Onegin-type stanza,
(Much like the blog you’re reading now.)
Done right, your readers will say “Wow!”
Your novel’s sales, a big bonanza.
Do other authors do it? Yes!
Like Margaret Wild and Karen Hesse.
When is Verse Novel form most useful?
When characters are more than few,
And besides—to be quite truthful—
When tale’s got many points of view.
When characters stir up commotion,
And in their heads is much emotion,
When using prose would seem far worst,
Each scene a momentary burst.
It’s quite in style for younger readers;
Verse Novels now are catching on;
For poetry, another dawn?
So, you might join this movement’s leaders,
Craft verse among that happy tribe!
Rhythmically Yours—
Poseidon’s Scribe
