Thanks John,"farther" is an immediate improvement. And thank you Jerome, for thinking with this. I will try this out. I at one point considered instead of further/lather, using "beyond/despond"---but I'm not sure how much despond is used as a noun these days, and it immediately sounds like more literary citation, as in "the slough of"---and I'm not sure that would be beneficial. "Beyond" also seems to dangle if in that place in the poem, and seems to want to be a noun ("the great beyond"), so I think I may have to stick with the off-rhyme.
Funny how nothing seems to rhyme with either farther or further...maybe father or Harvard or murder, if you are lispy or drunk enough.
Thanks!
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