Poem Requirements. 

1 What is a Poem?  No one can truly answer once and for all--the question is just too difficult.  For this class, however, we will establish that first and most importantly, a poem makes sense.  Mere rhyming doesn't.  Don't write something just because it rhymes.  Poems like the following will not be accepted for credit:
    Cheese is a disease
    When you eat it with the Chinese
    By the trapeze
    On the boat of seven seas
    With a deep freeze

2 The type of poem must be identified.