I like your challenge, Nimish. And it will be challenges like the one you’ve shared that will keep you growing as a writer.

When it involves poetry, I’ve always encouraged writers to read a lot of poetry, song lyrics, and study different types of poetic devices. You can simply do a search for “poetic devices” and “types of poetry.” For example, free verse poetry doesn’t have rhythm and it isn’t metered. You can write a free verse poem and then add alliteration (a writing device where the first letter of the 3 or more words are the same). Heres an example of a free verse poem with alliteration:

His caloused, clamoring, cold hands grabbed me

by the elbow as I frightenedly turned to see his face.

He was just a man, only a man and nothing to fear.

He had been a monster in my head for so long

I never looked him in the eyes to see he was a man, just a man.

I just made that up. As you can see no rhyming and the words “caloused, clamoring, cold” is an example of an alliteration.

Yes, read a lot of poetry and lyrics to songs and find examples of poetic devices and you will find your poetic voice.