> As for rhyming, I love it. It's always a slight bit odd for me when I come upon a poem that doesn't rhyme or alliterate or anything. I freak out when I see a poem with no structure at all.
>

Amen, preach it brother! (Heh.)
I can dig *some* completely unstructured poetry -- I have a much easier time absorbing it when I know the author -- but by far what impresses me more is a poem that puts structure to the service of its message and its overall beauty.

> I've always found Poe's rhyme schemes to be really interesting. The Raven, for instance, goes like this:
>
> A
> A
> B
> C
> C
> C
> B
> B
> B
>
> Or The Bells:
> A
> A
> A
> B
> C
> B
> B
> C
> D
> D
> A
> A
> A
> A
>
> Poe was so cool.
>

I really like what T.S. Eliot similarly did with some of his stuff, like this bit from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" [rhyme scheme added]:

A) No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
B) Am an attendant lord, one that will do
B) To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
C) Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
D) Deferential, glad to be of use,
E) Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
D) Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
E) At times, indeed, almost ridiculous --
C) Almost, at times, the Fool.

This is more or less how I've written most of my own stuff ever since being first smitten with Eliot's poetry. (Not that I'm comparing any of my junk to "Prufrock".) Sometimes I take it a little bit too far, though. The rhyme scheme for my untitled poem in the Poetry Pool ("The egoist's trick") is as follows:

A
B
C
D
A
C
E
B
D
F
E
F
G

H
I
J
H
K
I
L
K
J
M
L
N
N
M

G
O
O

I figure the fact that there's a rhyme in there at all escapes a lot of people, if they even bother to read past the second or third line. :-)

Iss "Cool; the poem ends with GOO" achar