Achebe's comment on Rhyme

[Achebe]

 english rhyming poetry [all kinds] when done well is a wonder to behold

That is, strangely, true. The more beautiful words in English are of Anglo Saxon origin - wood, stream, cloud, stone, bough. At the same time, it hath a number of Latin and Greek words in it. Therefore, despite not having the grammatical beautie of Italian or Spanish, as our courte ladies are wont to speak, it hath a vocabulary sweeter than any other language of foreign origin (fie on the foreigners). Being essentially an improvised language for most of its life, it hath a flexibility that maketh poetic conceit easie.

                                                                                                  ~ Shaksparre, the pomposs asse