The PBS' Top Tips for Poetry Readers by Simon Armitage

Here's a Poetry Testing Kit. It can't produce a precise result in terms of a poem being good or bad - it's more of a finger-in-the-wind, rule-of-thumb job, that might tell you why you like a poem (or why you don't). Remember, the reading of poetry is not an exact science: it does not require the wearing of protective glasses and need not be carried out under strict laboratory conditions.