The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #54651 Message #848306
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
16-Dec-02 - 01:59 PM
Thread Name: Are rhymes necessary?
Subject: RE: Are rhymes necessary?
There are no rhymes in Woody Guthrie's Plane Wreck at Los Gatos - unless you count Rosalita and Maria. But I bet most people hearing it or singing it don't even notice that. (It's not in the DT, for odd copyright hassle reasons, but you can check at that link I gave there.)
Metre and especially stress is far more important than rhyme in English verse. And especially when it comes to singable verse.