【明報專訊】Angelina experiments with different line lengths and rhyme schemes, especially in the second stanza with the repeated short line, "To him," which becomes a powerful statement here — imagine how different it would look and sound without those line breaks. Use line length and rhyme scheme to add emphasis to your poem. Many poems as this are not intended to be read with a pause at the end of each line, as a limerick would be read. It is usual to pause at commas, which would make some parts of Angelina's poem sound a little unnatural. Therefore, use punctuation in the same way you would do in prose and don't (necessarily) put a comma at the end of each line. When writing a poem with a freer structure like Angelina's, try writing it as straight prose first, and divide it into lines and stanzas afterwards, without changing your punctuation. Similarly, when reciting a poem like this, try writing it out again as straight prose, ignoring the poet's line breaks but keeping the same punctuation, and practise it in this way.