Culture · 6 pages · 12 min
How rhyme fell out of fashion without dying
End rhyme lost its default in some literary rooms and kept its other jobs.
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From the opening
End rhyme stopped being the expected close of a serious poem in much twentieth-century literary writing in English, and it did not disappear from the language. It lost a default and kept uses in song, light verse, children's verse, advertising, and poems that still want the chime. The opening covers how a default can fall away, where rhyme kept its other jobs, and why songs did not sign the shift.
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Inside
- How a default can fall away
- Where rhyme kept its other jobs
- Why songs did not sign the shift
- When fashion is only one room
- Where the idea stops applying
- A distinction worth keeping
Sources
- The modernist refusal of end rhyme as a default
- Rhyme continuing in song and formal verse