To rhyme or not to rhyme...?
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To rhyme or not to rhyme...?
Personally I much prefer poetry that is rhymed - I find that being subjected to formal constraints focuses the mind of the poet and brings forth better versification. There are of course exceptions; Walt Whitman's poetry doesn't rhyme yet I consider him a genius. Still, an exceptional genius: most unrhymed, unmetered poetry looks to me like chopped up prose.
Any thoughts?
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When I was younger I too felt viscerally the uncoolness of rhyme and I wrote free verse. Most of it was IMO crap. In the early 90s I started writing rhyming verse. Turns out, that was really the voice inside me and once that was allowed to speak, eventually my free verse became much better, I think by virtue of hearing wht the rhymes could do.
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-- 05 Apr 2014, 17:34 --
I enjoy writing and reading either. Generally, I tend to write more rhyming poems than free-verse, but as long as the poem flows nicely I don't think it matters much.
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