Obviously, Plath's "Daddy" has rhyme without meter, but she does it unpredictably, not in couplets. I love that effect when it is well done, and when I started writing poetry again, I wrote a number of poems that used it. But I quickly realized that it is an effect that tends to be scorned by both camps, the formalist and the free verse. So I stopped using it. Part of the problem, I think, is that beginning writers are often attracted to it and handle it very poorly, which gives it a bad name.
Susan
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