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Apr 21, 2008

John Lundberg: Why Don't Poems Rhyme Anymore?

“For centuries word-things, called poems, have been made according to primary and defining craft principles of, first, measure, and second, alliteration and rhyme. Word-things not made according to those principles are not poems.”

The Queen's English Society may sound like the name of a Monty Python sketch, but I assure you it's very real. via The Huffington Post

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