S01E04: Rhyme

For S01E04 of GorPod, we discuss the rhyme. Rhyme is a very common poetic elements across many forms and languages, and yet it's often looked upon with some scorn today. Is it still important for poetry? We read Sonnet 18 from the great William Shakespeare, and look at how it uses rhyme to form its structure. We also see the closing couplets of several sonnets to demonstrate the “punch” that rhyme can give; we explore Sonnet 20 as an example of double (or feminine) rhyme, and read Frost's “Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening” as still another example of the powerful capabilities of rhyme. Our Goretti poem this episode is The Tulip Grows, a nine-stanza, thirty-six-line poem which uses only two rhymes, in a b b a structure. We discuss its meaning and structure, particularly how rhyme is used therein.