How Do You Compose A Violent Poem, Chant, Or Song?
• Think about what you are going to write in your poem, chant, or song. Is violence a good thing or a bad thing? Who is committing the heinous acts, and how? Why are they being violent? Where is this taking place, and when? • You may find some bloodthirsty and negative words that rhyme. An example is peace and cease. If you want, rhyming can be limited or not included at all; this makes your work sound less like a nursery song. • Use a wide variety of terrible worlds. Nouns (apocalypse, horror, blood, battleground, wasteland), adjectives (cruel, disgusting, revolting, menacing, inexplicable), and verbs (slash, slice, pierce, obliterate, butcher) are all central to the piece. Additionally, use adverbs (horrifyingly, disastrously, agonisingly, surreptitiously, painfully) to describe verbs in greater detail and to give the reader a crystal clear image of what exactly is going on in your story. • Use a variety of literary techniques. Similies, metaphors, personification, onomatopoeia, oxym
