“A poem is supposed to rhyme!”

But really? All of the time?

What about the meter

That counts out each line

So the next one is sweeter

Each and every time?

What about slant rhyme

That doesn’t really rhyme

But kind of does each time

It is put at the end of a line?

Or what about assonance

Or any kind of general rhyme–

Not perfect–which doesn’t

With perfection rhyme?

Can you really say that every

Single work of verse or poetry

Is supposed to rhyme each line

With each verse constructed

To become a rhyming scheme

Because an old idea is

Reconstructed to tell the tale

Of every past instance

Constructed upon some pre-

Dilection for a certain kind of

Diction in verse or in prose

Such that nobody really knows

Which is right or wrong but all

Have a preferential kind of god

And how that one must write

To compose a verse that is right.