how do you dissect or study a poem

[Leanne]

I disagree, billy. I don't think there's any need for a poem to be close to finished when it's posted in Serious Critique - we've said plenty of times that Serious doesn't mean it has to be a brilliant poem, it's the quality of feedback that you expect. If someone's got a draft they're working on, even just the germ of an idea that they're happy to get intensive feedback about, they shouldn't be worried about posting it. This is a workshop, after all. The point is to share what we know with each other so that we all improve. Personally I only put poems in Serious Critique that I'm still working on and want detailed feedback. If it's already finished, it goes in Miscellaneous or somewhere, so that people don't waste effort on something that I don't have any burning need to work on. Either that, or I'll showcase it somewhere else.