When Mayakovsky's students, committed to the class cause, questioned why they could not understand his poems Mayakovksy would reply : You have to become more understanding
What I mean to say by this is that sometimes poetic norms come to us blessed as currencies in the most awkward ways possible. Mayakovsky talked of this as poets simply putting carriages together to make trains, but the first poet to invent the formula - 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 - was in fact a genius.