Generally speaking, and according to people who profess to know about it, poetry is categorised by cultures and genres, its number of lines or words, whether or not it rhymes and what it is about. This, at once, suggests that poetry is governed by rules and must follow set forms and conventions. According to Richard Theze, however, writing to a set of rules that permits the results to neatly fit critics' pigeonholes is contrary to what poetry should be and goes wholly against the grain. For him, poetry is, first and foremost, to do with the free expression of feelings and ideas that are given...
Generally speaking, and according to people who profess to know about it, poetry is categorised by cultures and genres, its number of lines or words, ...