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Decide Whether Your Poem Needs A Rhyme Scheme
You have a draft poem and a nagging feeling it should either be tightened into a proper form or left loose as free verse, and you cannot tell which. This looks at what the poem is actually built on, image, argument, sound, or story, and gives you a clear recommendation with reasons, rather than a rewrite you did not ask for. Good for anyone with a poem stuck between two shapes.
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You have written a poem, {POEM_TEXT}, and cannot decide whether to force it into rhyme and metre or leave it as free verse.
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<task>
**Help decide the right form for this specific poem:**
1. Identify what the poem is actually doing: is it built on image, argument, sound, or story
2. Assess whether the current line breaks are doing any work, or just following prose logic
3. Give the case for keeping it as free verse, in two or three sentences
4. Give the case for a formal rewrite (state which form suits it best: sonnet, ballad, villanelle, or another), in two or three sentences
5. Recommend one, with a one-line reason
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- Two short cases (free verse vs form), then a clear recommendation
- No rewritten poem; this is a decision, not an edit
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.