Feel for the weak spots
- meter/rhythm
- thought structure
- emotional centre
- clarity
- line endings
- consonance & assonance
- use of 5 senses
- density/compression/efficiency
- point/truth
- beauty or cacophony and variation
- immediacy
- concretely specific
- uniqueness of pov
- motif
- direction/momentum
- a turn or development
- vulnerability, honesty, some skin the game
- rhetoric
- posturing
- earnest vs makes you laugh
- makes the unstated salient
- what are left margin words
- sharp verbs
It would be interesting to do a screen recording of editing a poem.