Tim -
I’ll wager all my pentametric wealth,
the earnings from my poetry, the pelf
acquired line-by-line, the self itself -
my writer’s ego (all except my health) -
and bet that I can quickly wander where
the words that you avoid may find a breath
of rhyme and meter, dodge poetic death:
even if Tim Murphy doesn’t go there.
By the way, I have to admit I use a rhyming dictionary incessantly (but not on this one). When I'm working on something with many repeated rhymes - and I like to play with forms like ballade, villanelle and Spenserian stanzas, as well as suffering from an addiction to internal rhymes - I even make lists of potential rhyme words in advance, and try to use them to get the juices flowing.
Regards,
Michael
[This message has been edited by Michael Cantor (edited July 18, 2002).]
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