Rhyme & Metre

Some people dislike poems that don’t rhyme for much the same reasons that they dislike hoodies with studs in their noses. Both seem to pose a vague threat to social order. Rhyme in poetry, like metre and rhythm, reflects a sense of balance and symmetry; to banish it, as a lot of modern poetry does, may seem like opening the floodgates to anarchy. Start off with free verse and you end up with free love.Consider this couplet from the 18th-century poet Alexander Pope...