Oh free-verse poets, have you folks no shame?
Are you moronic, ignorant, obtuse,
foolish, thick and dim, or should we blame
an evil purpose? What is your excuse?
Whence the gumption whereby you discard
long centuries of usage and tradition?
Might it be simply that to rhyme is hard?
Or do you want for genuine ambition?
Why, if rhyme and meter suited Blake,
Shakespeare, Keats, Rossetti and Millay,
have you concluded poets must forsake
these tools to say the things that they should say?
Just where exactly did you folks get lost?
Your verse is free, but do you know the cost?
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