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Rhyme Is Dead!!!!!!!!!!!!!

According to many students and writers of poetry Rhyme is Dead... So be it...

Rhyme is Dead!!!!!

Oh my God! Can it be true?
Rhyme is dead, it’s gone, it’s through.
It’s a useless skill, for one to possess
It’s not big it’s not clever, it doesn’t impress.
It’s stupid, pointless, childish word-play
So sterile and so totally passé
And the people who write or read rhymed verse
Should be ignored, or even worse,
As they’re unbelievably out of touch
They really should be tattooed as such
Across their foreheads and paraded through
The streets of a major city or two,
So serious poets can shout ‘Unclean.
Your verse has no place in our poetry scene’
Until finally the message gets through,
They’ll define your poetry for you

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julie callaghan

Sun 13th Sep 2020 09:27

Oh no, please don’t let it be so.
My written rhymes
I fear may offend
My time on WOL
Must to come an end

Robert Haigh

Sun 13th Sep 2020 09:12

Ha-ha! Strange how different poets have different ideas about rhyme. I write in rhyme perhaps two-thirds of the time, but we are all free to write in whatever style or form we choose. Poetry itself is open to a myriad different approaches. Long live poetry - and freedom to express ourselves!

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Paul H Tubb

Sat 30th Aug 2008 10:53

Thank you all for your kind comments...

P.S. Verse and Worse rhyme, not sure what the problem is there.

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Rodney Wood

Fri 29th Aug 2008 16:33

Yep. Rhyme is dead alright especially if the poem has verse and worse in it.

<Deleted User> (5646)

Thu 28th Aug 2008 10:49

Thanks for this great little poem.
It's fun. It rhymes. What's more, it has rhythm.

Fantastico! ps. That's my new word for great.
Love Janet.xx

<Deleted User> (4281)

Thu 28th Aug 2008 04:15

HI, Paul

I do not agree that Rhyme is dead! I love poems that have the rhyme. It is great to read the different kind and styles in writing, do not your style with rhyme to die...Thanks for sharing, very nice poem!

Kind Regards,
Zuzanna

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clarissa mckone

Thu 28th Aug 2008 01:56

Oh God no! I love the rhyme, it cant be dead, it does take talent, it is important.When is the funeral? God No, not dead? Love the poem!

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