Why does poetry rhyme

Not for poets, for those who publish. They have content! No skill necessary. To hell with all greats poets of the past.

Contest winning, fellowship earning, critically acclaimed poets … As long as we can say the work evokes emotion, were safe! Just a Rothko painting. A five year old could have painted that!

An art dealer may be able to describe the painting in ways that may prompt you to question your own sanity. An art dealer may even sell that painting for millions! After all, the standard has changed. These days, poetry does not have to rhyme. One basically tells a story, that has a begining, middle and an end. Only, the sentences are split on separate lines. What a poem!

Keep your modern poems I prefer poets of the past. I prefer a time, when there was respect for skill. Shame on all who participate in this travesty!

Shakespeare, Milton and Tennison wrote prose, not poetry You proved in your very first ppgph that poetry should rhyme and prose is free form. When a poem does not rhyme it tends to throw me off the subject, like being thrown from a horse. It appears choppy and unstructured, whereas a poem flows. It has a rhythm to it, and it seems to stay with a subject, like a flowing river. I agree with Jerry Viviano. Does anyone know where poems can be posted for review?

I would like to read some, and would also like to submit some. To Joseph De Marco, That is a very rude comment and there is no need to write something like that to a person who is just speaking their opinion.

I just have to say that you have said one of the rudest comments to somebody who was just trying to place their opinion. There was no need for that sort of language, and you should be ashamed of what you said.

When Should Poetry Rhyme? Over time our taste for chord structures has grown more advanced and demanding, so too has our taste for rhyme.

The simple end-stopped hard rhyme of "hear the lion roar" and "We are Singapore" no longer excites—rather, it becomes so predictable it bores. This has led many poets to abandon rhyme completely. But sound still underlies poetry—the challenge has just been taken to a higher level for modern day wordsmiths to interweave the pleasing chimes of rhyme in their works in subtler ways.

Embattled, the city shows no obvious sign Of war. But queues of Vespas and Hondas, Wide, bare boulevards, the silence after nine, Point to the plight of the reluctant of Khmers. Leaving them at the end of two lines with full-stops after them is equivalent to bringing the cymbals together with a giant clang. But Robert goes on after "sign" in the first line—he enjambs, or runs-on the sentence into "Of war" in the next poetic line, before taking a pause.

Instead of a glaring clang highlighted by an open silence after, we get a light clash within the rhythm of the whole band. Do "Hondas" rhyme with "Khmers"? The second "uh" vowel does, depending on differing regional pronunciations of these non-English-origin words. So this is a half-rhyme, and doubly halved by the rhyming syllable being the shorter, unstressed syllable of "Hondas" and few readers being able to pronounce "Khmers" accurately on first viewing Or if it does attend, we may not tell how mind or heart should turn its meaning but where it will.

And some there are who have denied us all fellowship and identity reserved their rank in the national roll. But should you read these lines, and if they move, I would you share their longing with a friend, our people, and all who love. Some examples would be the words "orange, silver, purple, and month". Here the poet would need to be creative in the rhyming scheme and perhaps try to rhyme orange with something like door hinge; silver with pilfer as a sight rhyme, or purple with burple, as the color of a hiccup I admit that one is certainly a stretch, but you know what I mean.

Finally, all rhyme schemes typically affect the meaning, impact, and feeling of a poem, but they do not usually affect the structure of the poem itself; rhyme is purely ornamental. Rhyme should never dominate a poem; once it does it becomes like a woman wearing too much eye shadow.

His new book, Get Wisdom, is recently published by Xlibris Div. Random House Publishing and is available at ext. If you have feedback or have a poem you have written and would like it considered for publication in this column, you may e-mail him at MikeHic Nii. The reason for rhyme By Michael Hickey. Some of the rhyme schemes poets employ are as follows: Alliteration is the repetition of the same consonant sounds, and is typically used at the beginning of each stressed syllable.

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