sadeyedartist and I were discussing this in the car recently. One of our pet peeves is when the lyrics of modern songs do not match the music, that is, when the lyrical rhythm does not fit the musical rhythm or when lyrics are devoid of any rhythm of their own.

Traditionally, poetry has had rhythm. No, it's not always been iambic or trochaic or some other ( Read more... )

The other day I wrote a poem for my wife in which the first word of each line rhymed.

After the fact, I pondered that I've never seen such a poem before.

Nowadays, everyone (except ubersecret) has for the most part abandoned form poetry, but the question I have is, did anyone "famous" ever write poetry in which the rhyming scheme involved the first and not ( Read more... )

( Nothing to see here; move along. )