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This is really interesting, and a beautiful little project. Unfortunately, I don't think it will be of any use to actual poets... Rhyming isn't really in style
by lukev 14y ago
This is really interesting, and a beautiful little project.
Unfortunately, I don't think it will be of any use to actual poets... Rhyming isn't really in style for modern poetry, and what there is is usually more subtle internal rhymes rather than heavy end-rhymes.
Still, this is a ton of fun to write doggrel with.
(source: my wife has an MFA in poetry)
- buzz27 14y agoDitto - my partner is poet ... this is neat, but doesn't relate to what poets do nowadays. That said, this has prompted some very interesting discussion of what kinds of tools /would/ be useful.
- mhartl 14y agoPerhaps your observation indicates a defect of "modern" poetry, a defect that a project such as this might help remedy. I'd wager that Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare would be surprised to learn that non-rhyming poetry was ever "in style"—though I suppose dactylic hexameter, terza rima, and sonnets are a bit end-rhyme-heavy.
- vacri 14y agoWhy does a poem need to rhyme before it can be considered free of defects?
- lukev 14y agoConsidering Shakespeare wrote mostly blank verse (unrhymed) and Homer wrote unrhymed dactylic hexameter... I'd take that wager. Greek and Latin poetry is actually almost never end-rhymed... because Greek and Latin are heavily inflected with lots of conjugations and declensions, the "endings" of words are often the same and a bit too obvious. Rhyming poetry actually came into style for a couple centuries in English poetry... it's by no means a universal feature of poetry. Edit: Also, I guarantee that "finding a rhyme" is not the bottleneck that's keeping modern poets from writing rhyming poetry.
- mhartl 14y agoOn second thought, I agree. I believe I've lost my wager. Thanks for the correction.