“I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!” Elizabeth Bennett famously says in Pride and Prejudice. Nevertheless, much truth can be encapsulated in a rhyming couplet. For example, “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.” So try your hand at a sonnet. Let the rigid structure force you to word and reword until the beats fit.

Beata Rybka is an editorial assistant at Madavor Media. Her work has been published in a variety of national publications including Gluten-Free Living Magazine and Volleyball Magazine, as well as on the Web.

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