Blank Verse Sucks

by david kessel   Nov 30, 2003


Blank verse sucks!
It's for lazy men.
Even ducks
Rhyme their quacks and then,

Even hounds,
Kittens and such kinds
Rhyme their sounds
With their tiny minds:

"Miaw, miaw, miaw,
Tic Tic Tic Tictic,
Bow wow wow,
Mic mic mic Micmic."

Don't you start
Talking of Shakespeare!
Have a heart
For you reader, dear!

In his time
It was hard to find
Diff'rent rhymes
Of a useful kind.

So, he wrote
In his long blank verse,
And we dote
On his geni-us.

In those times
There was no Internet.
Lists of rhymes
Were also hard to get.

Dic-tion-aries
Were also not around.
It was custo-mary
To ignore the sound

Of the endings.
But what about you?
Why are you defending
Verse that's got no glue?

Rhymed verse spinning
Don't require a sage.
Chime and meaning
Will your talent gauge.

Use search engines,
Seek your rhymings well,
Make word endings,
Echo like a bell.

If you want to
Be a poet, then
Visit onto
Your blank verse again.

And re-write it
Make it rhyme like this:
"Fight-it, bite-it, light-it,
Kiss, miss, abyss,

Chik-tick-pick
Tilly-dilly-lick,
Bick-jick-fick
Milly-hilly-crick,

Bow wow wow,
Chow tow how,
Pow cow yow,
Sow gow fow."

Blank verse stinks
It's for lazy men.
Don't even think
Of writing it again.

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