Ode to the Rhyming Bard

by HopefulxRomantic   Jul 14, 2007


O, predictable bard who intrinsically rhymes,
How do you keep rhyming in your thought-dulled times?
Do you look for words that do not quite fit?
Or make a very long line waffling on until you can find something that suitably goes with it?
You can drone on and on without thought or care,
And go off on a tangent, like the style of your hair,
Do you point out the flaws in political farce?
Or resort to profanity, straight from your... mind?
Can you write about hate, or sickness? Demise?
Can you place a dear reader up amongst the skies?
Can you unlock emotions from mere humble words?
While you join the fields of the conforming herds?
Restriction and timing and false regulation,
Are synonyms for literary degradation.
O, predictable bard who writes without care,
It's a shame that your stories don’t go anywhere.

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  • 17 years ago

    by Of Sweet Insanity

    Lol I do know the drill-- But this is a serious matter! This was awesome! I had to read it a few times. You have a lot of talent and I just LOVE reading your work! never stop!

  • 17 years ago

    by HopefulxRomantic

    I don't actually condemn poets who can rhyme. In fact, it's a skill I wish I could utilise more often. But looking back on some poems I read years ago, the pieces there that are restricted in such an unnecessary fashion are simply terrible. You'll see words that are twisted by a poet's accent so that they "sort of" rhyme, extra-long lines, and subjects completely changing just so the rhyme function isn't affected.

    Free verse is always the answer for these kind of errors. If you have something to say, say it freely. The Romantics new this and it holds true to today.

    You know the drill. Feedback is a blessing!
    HxR