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Poetry can be used to define feelings or emotions, as well as comedy and action.  Anyone could write poetry if they know the elements of a good poem.
Well, when we are told to write a poem, we usually think about the rhythm and rhyming of the words and how they will connect.  But there are more ways to compose and analyze poems to make them more meaningful and eloquent.

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"I Carry Your Heart With Me" (E. E. Cummings)
“…and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you …”

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The reoccurrence of a word or phrase is described to be repitition. Although the repitition may not be word for word, the reader should still be able to identify it.

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"Lord Jim" (by Joseph Conrad)
“I would have given anything for the power to soothe her frail soul, tormenting itself in its invincible ignorance like a small bird beating about the cruel wires of a cage.”

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"The Bells" (by Edgar Allen Poe)
"How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!"

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"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (by Robert Frost)
"And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."

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Similar to the simile, a metaphor is the comparison of two objects by identifying one as the other but without using "like" or "as".  In the example, Cummings is comparing his beloved to the moon and to the sun.

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Smile...simile...there is an extra "i" in between the "s" and the "m" in the word simile.  A simile is the comparison of two objects using the words "like" or "as".  In most poetry, the authors will use similes or another type of comparison method (explained in "Metaphor"). When an author uses a simile, they are trying to get the reader to picture something in their minds, but to make it easier, the author compares it to something the reader is familiar with.

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"A Modern Dragon" (by Rowen B. Bennett)
A train is a dragon that roars through the dark.
He wriggles his tail as he sends up a spark.

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Unknown (by Unkown)
The owl that lives in the old oak tree
Opens his eyes and cannot see."

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Assonance may not be known that commonly as alliteration or rhythm, but it is an element of poetry.  An assonance is when several nearby words contain the same vowel sound. In a poem, there may be a consonance hanging with an assonance somewhere in that poem. A consonance is when several nearby words contain the same consonant sound; the sound is not necessarily at the beginning of each word.

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Unknown (by Unknown)
Now a neon sign punctuates the dark
With a bright, blinking, breathless exclamation mark!

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The majority of people have heard many tongue twisters. For example, a famous tongue twister is,"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." In poems, many authors will use alliteration. If several nearby words begin with the same sound, you will be able to identify that line or verse as an alliteration.

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"The leaves scraped the ground while they were sprinting towards the giant fence." The phrase above is an example of a personification. A personification is when the human characteristics are given to creatures or inanimate objects.

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"Lone Dog" (by Irene R. McCleod)
I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;
I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own.

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An exotic word,  onomatopoeias are the words that are created to imitate a sound, such as, "buzz," or, "moo". The onomatopoeia can be used for rhetorical, dramatic or poetic affect.

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"The Loaves" (by Ronald Everson)
Half a dozen white loaves lie
in the oven of the sky,
round above and flat below.
Who is baking? I don't know.

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When writing a poem, the rhythm and the beat is what is most important, besides the content.  The rhyming is a similar sound, mostly consists of a vowel and a consonant, in two or more words.  In other words, the poem has rhyme schemes throughout the stanza(s). For example, "A, A, B, B" is a rhyme scheme. Mentioned before, the rhythm is what is so captivating in a poem.  With further detail, the rhythm  is a regular pattern of stressed, or accented, syallbles that give a poem a beat; the rhythm should also complement the poem's content.  The rhythm guides the reader into a sense of organization and excellent flow.