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Unread 04-30-2021, 12:10 PM
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Alicia herself doesn't always rhyme on different parts of speech. She wasn't trying to state an invariable rule, but rather was making an observation (as have many others, including Richard Wilbur) about the way doing so can take full advantage of the opportunities for expressiveness that rhyme offers. Of course she wasn't suggesting that a poem will necessarily be bad if it doesn't take advantage of this particular opportunity. Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, for example ("When in disgrace"), only has two rhymes that are made from different parts of speech, or four lines out of fourteen. I'm sure Alicia wouldn't fault the sonnet for bad rhyming.
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