twelveoone
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"my own humble suggestions that will remove all rhyme from the work but not diminish it"
as good a time as any to rehash the timeless question, rime or rimeless?
I read in a technical journal something like 30% of the population will only recognize it as poetry if it has end rhyme. That 30% doesn't buy much poetry, maybe a Hallmark card twice a year.
To think you must use it, is dogmatic, out of style since way before you were born.
To think you must avoid it, is dogmatic, out of style even in vers libre circles.
In one case it is a memory device. Rhyming couplets have been going out of style since the advent of the printed page. Songwriters still use them, because it's tough to read a little piece of paper hanging from a mike stand, and you at least want some of your song remembered by your stoned and drunk audience. Or in Bob Dylan's case, drunk and stoned college profs.
In one case it is a tool, a mere repetition. However because it often occupies a key position, the end of the line, it draws more attention to itself. So care must be taken, it is often fatal to what you are trying to do, your work can look cheap and easy.
In this particular case, look again, it is also where I avoid it that is more important.
note however, place/face (internal)/face (internal again) and name/fame
too often discussions of poetry focus on what it is, and not the more serious question of what is it doing.
i am not posting a link, d-bag hasn't hit it yet, and i am not taking issue with the fact that a comment was made, that is why we make comments, and anyone that has been here should remember i am one of the few that admit i am often wrong
as good a time as any to rehash the timeless question, rime or rimeless?
I read in a technical journal something like 30% of the population will only recognize it as poetry if it has end rhyme. That 30% doesn't buy much poetry, maybe a Hallmark card twice a year.
To think you must use it, is dogmatic, out of style since way before you were born.
To think you must avoid it, is dogmatic, out of style even in vers libre circles.
In one case it is a memory device. Rhyming couplets have been going out of style since the advent of the printed page. Songwriters still use them, because it's tough to read a little piece of paper hanging from a mike stand, and you at least want some of your song remembered by your stoned and drunk audience. Or in Bob Dylan's case, drunk and stoned college profs.
In one case it is a tool, a mere repetition. However because it often occupies a key position, the end of the line, it draws more attention to itself. So care must be taken, it is often fatal to what you are trying to do, your work can look cheap and easy.
In this particular case, look again, it is also where I avoid it that is more important.
note however, place/face (internal)/face (internal again) and name/fame
too often discussions of poetry focus on what it is, and not the more serious question of what is it doing.
i am not posting a link, d-bag hasn't hit it yet, and i am not taking issue with the fact that a comment was made, that is why we make comments, and anyone that has been here should remember i am one of the few that admit i am often wrong
