Rhymes in poetry one doesn’t like seem silly whereas rhymes in poetry one likes don’t. Is my theory. And I’m gonna test it! By giving the rhymes without the poetry. The theory states that it’s difficult to tell which rhymes are stupid and which aren’t. Okay. You can do this in two ways: just guess which ones are “real” poets and which are trashy pop, or actually try to map the rhymes to the rhymers.
Rhymes:
1) ash / abash / clash / man / can
2) year / here / too / renew / age / page / join / coin
3) away / day / disappear / hear / night / right / fast / last
4) way / lay / say / ring / sing
5) knew / chew / doubt / out / cried / subside / losing / amusing
6) seen / been / hold / told / skies / eyes
7) run / sun / weep / sleep / deep
8) more / shore / still / hill / tree / me / farm / harm / gave / grave
9) me / free / shoe / through / rule / pool / drool
10) true / you / know / below / pay / away
Sources:
a) Keats
b) Byron
c) Britney Spears (lyric presumably written by someone else)
d) The Eagles
e) A. E. Housman
f) Leonard Cohen
g) D. H. Lawrence
h) Led Zeppelin
i) Paul Anka
j) Philip Larkin
Now that I look at these the task seems quite impossible unless you can actually recognise some of the poems/songs. The correct answers may be found here (so as not to spoil anyone reading the comments). Maybe I’ll do a Finnish one later.
