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08-22-04
I agree that most rhyming sound ridiculous, but that's mainly because it's done ridiculously. Most people force themselves into either AABB or ABAB, rhyming every lime and abandoning meter and good English entirely to force the rhyme. I think most really good sounding poetry uses rhyme, though, if sparingly at the least. In conjunction with meter and non-horriblywarped-grammar, rhyme starts to sound a lot better.
And yeah, I noticed that every poem is about the same stuff, too. When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
- John Adams |