u/pillarxyz

I've been learning Latin for a while and so far I'm having good progress in terms of prose reading, I've had no issue reading and understanding Breviarium of Eutropius and Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi and recently I'm reading mostly renaissance and medieval works like De Monarchia of Dante, but whenever I try to read poetry it seems that my understanding goes out of the window especially since word order seems to be more flexible and the fact that in poetry there are many omissions and contraction of words, do you have any advice in order to read poetry well ? Thank you so much in advance