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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

Hello there /lit/

I recently found out that I am a big fan of poetry. I reread Faust after I had to read it in school a good 10 or more years ago (I am German btw.). Schiller's The Robbers and reading Eugene Onegin right now and greatly enjoy it.

On the other hand I am not a big fan of normal poems. It seems I am into the longer works of poetry and will soon check out the epics.

But well here is the thing, I would love to write poetry myself. Everytime I read works of poetry I start to rhym simple stories in my head myself. So were do I start with this? I thought about starting to read some stuff on wikipedia about it and inform myself about rhyming schemes and forms etc.

Can you recommand me something else I should know before starting with this?