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Originally Posted by John Whitworth
Jan D Hodge, Dylan Thomas is supposed tohave written a hundred line poem that rhymes the same way as your 17th/18th century chap. No much point to it really. One might try a sonnet abcdefggfedcba. I shall think about that.
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Actually, 102 lines. You can hear the rhyme in the middle, where farms/arms meet. I think Dylan Thomas admitted that there was no real point for the reader, although he felt there was a point for the poet. I agree it's pointless, but I still thought it was neat when I first read it many years ago. Here's the poem:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/14.html