Achebe's comment on Rhyme

[rayheinrich]

Achebe wrote in a critique:

... particularly because all perfect rhymes in rhyme poor English have been done to death.

    Ludicrous.  
    Proof: RhymeZone 
    (Also a great place to find slant rhymes [my faves as well as Erthona's], Shakespeare, and whole bunches of boatloads more.)

    What's been done to death is "discussions" like this one. 

    Leanne, yet twice more,  summed it up:

Actually, since English is a language in a constant state of flux, all perfect rhymes have definitely not been done to death -- and even if they had, varying the surrounding words and context in unexpected ways revitalises the rhymes themselves.  As the Duke said, end rhyme seems to be unfairly vilified by contemporary poets but it's really just another tool in the box.  It's not the tool that's faulty, it's the way people use it.

Are we really doing this again?  

Rhyme, don't rhyme.  Serious, frivolous.  Your labels are bullshit.

There is poetry done well, and poetry not done well.  End of.