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If you want to write in rhyme, my short advice to you is:  read, read, read and read more good poems which have perfect rhyme and metre.  The two things go together.  When I was a little girl, I can't remember having 'poetry lessons' at school, but I discovered the library in the town next to our village and there I found lots and lots of poetry books written by excellent poets, with poems that really appealed to my child's mind.  Without any lessons whatever, I wrote the only poem I wrote before my retirement years, at the age of 11.  This I wrote for our school magazine.  My Garden.   Getting no praise from teachers or feedback of any kind, this was the only poem I ever wrote then, but I did keep reading poems just because I loved the lyrical language.

It was the children at my local primary school whom I met well into my retirement, who encouraged me to write so many of these poems for them week by week and year by year, and how they showed me their thanks!!!!  Also my own grandchildren, Jessica and Daniel.  Thank you so much children.  Without writing to publishers, 3 educational publishers have published my poems, and of course I have also, on this website.  They go into 188 countries of the world, so Google tells me.  Josie