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George J. Dance wrote:

> On 2022-05-02 6:56 p.m., W.Dockery wrote:
>> General-Zod wrote:
>>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>>> Today's poem on Penny's Poetry Blog:
>>
>>>> Always Marry an April Girl, by Ogden Nash
>>>> [...]
>>>> April golden, April cloudy,
>>>> Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy;
>>>> [...]
>>>> https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2022/04/always-marry-april-girl-ogden-nash.html
>>>>
>>
>>> Cool, second read
>>
>>
>> Nash definitely was the master of his niche in poetry.

> Oh, yeah. As an example:I remember one textbook I picked up in the last
> half of the last century. It was very modern in its approach to verse.
> First, it ignored rhythm / meter completely. Second, it pontificated
> that rhyme was good only for humorous effect; and the one example of
> rhyme it cited was Ogden Nash.

> Be that as it may, I'm glad to have his poetry on the blog. This debut
> is a bit out of the ordinary -- it reads like a love poem he dashed off
> to his wife, whether he did or whether he designed it that way (probably
> the latter, since his wife was born in March).


As you know, much of my early years of poetry writing and study I was taught to shun rhymes, in popular culture and personal school studies


My teacher and mentor Dan Barfield, as you know, famously told our class:

"Rhyme is a crutch."

I learned to begin to embrace rhyme, meter and form, et cetera, in these later years.