
08-16-2013, 01:11 AM
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Sweden
Posts: 14,175
|
|
A rhyme scheme with no content has no esthetic value.
AABB is to ABAB as 4/4/4/2 is to 8/6/2.
Put more succinctly, it is nonsense to ask: What is your most and least preferred rhyme scheme?
Unless, of course, this is simply a popularity poll such as: How many reading this thread are wearing a red tie?
I am tempted to quote from the abovementioned William H. Gass book, from the essay I happen to be reading just now:
Quote:
The detachment it is sometimes necessary to exercise in order to disentangle esthetic qualities from others is often resented. It is frequently considered a good thing if moral outrage makes imbeciles of us.
|
Last edited by Janice D. Soderling; 08-16-2013 at 01:43 AM.
Reason: Afterthought
|