One thing that stands out for me in the poems posted here so far is how much the rhyming helps with the humor. Which got me thinking, how much really funny verse has not had rhymes? I'm not asking this rhetorically, I just can't think of much offhand. Billy Collins can be funny, and there are others recently. But rhyme is so effective for making the joke snap, as Blake said,
Her whole Life is an Epigram
Smack smooth & neatly pend
Platted quite neat to catch applause
With a sliding noose at the end
Doesn't a good rhyme in a funny poem sometimes seem like the funniest part?
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