When trying to rhyme, it isn’t a crime
To use the same word twice
Or thrice or quatrice
Quatrice is not a real word
But it isn’t all that absurd
To make up words
If you poetate with a valid license
But never poetate without a license
Otherwise people won’t be able to tell
That poetate is not meant to be potato
And you just can’t spell
And when I’ve lost my muse
A simple ruse is to overuse
Poetry to express my views
But I often confuse the rules
Of the various forms
Though it isn’t a crime not to rhyme
And when you rhyme, it isn’t a crime
To use the same word twice
Or thrice or quatrice or even quintice
It’s better to say twice twice
Than say rice, if rice has no context
Any more than mice or lice
And frankly it isn’t nice to talk about lice at all
But though it is not a crime to rhyme
Twice with twice
It is perhaps a vice to use twice thrice
Though to use thrice twice is less of a vice
And my advice with any literary device
Is to be concise
Using thrice twice will suffice
Not all poems have to be killer
Some of them will be filler
To write is to be a word distiller
And say pretentious things like
“I’m a word distiller”
Poets aren’t trying to write a thriller
Thrillers are best served by a novel
Or a screenplay
Or a stage play
Poetry is ill-suited to thrillers
Even a thriller that’s principally about
Crimes committed with rhymes
But when you rhyme, it isn’t a crime
To use the same word twice
Or thrice or quatrice or quintice or even sextice
Although sextice does sound a bit naughty
And potentially quite thrilling
James Proclaims! 
28 responses to “A Poem About How To Rhyme When Writing A Poem”
But if you only say twice once
You may sound like a dunce.
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I’d sound like a dunce if it earned me a bunce
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Oooh, the ode-ious rhymes,
An audacious amount,
All working double time, oftentimes,
Criminally too many to count!
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More rhymes than I need?
Guilty I plead
And I’ll concede
It’s hard to read
Aloud at great speed
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I’m left spluttering
My answers stut. stut. stut. stut
Oh well, I’ll answer late late later.
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It’s funny, I see names on here with the words “writer” or “poet” after their name. And I can’t help thinking “crikey, they must be bad if nobody can figure that out from reading their material”.
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I’ve always wondered about that too.
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I’ve pondered on the matter long and hard!
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That’s nothing short of brilliant! Great job.
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Thanks, and thanks for the reblog
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This is an excellent play on words from Jame Proclaims. He has a great way with words, enjoy.
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Very fine work, you berk.
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Hmmm, I may have to drop my pseudonym briefly to alert you to the fact that you have accidently hit upon my actual (and somewhat unfortunate) surname. Different spelling but undoubtedly the same sound. So I am very much a Birk.
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Equally sadly, I was already aware of that and it wasn’t an accident, which in my Bear-of-little-brain world (population:1), made it a ‘double clever with a cherry on top’ comment.
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In which case, touché. But weirdly it was the second time I heard berk as an insult yesterday and it’s not generally one that crops up very often.
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Mrs S uses some other interesting variations from the thesaurus. I can list them if you like–or would you like to maintain your family rating?
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If you can make up words-ze
To make things rhyme-ze
Everything is easy
😉
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Don’t tell everyone or they’ll all start doing it!
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An ode to lice would have been nice.
Misaligned creatures, who rarely get features.
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Or maybe mice with lice
Who eat mostly rice
With added spice
And the occasional slice
Of something nice
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That should suffice.
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Gosh, you’re a regular word distiller.
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That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me
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You’re welcome.
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This is my favorite! And while I love all your haikus (and that one tanka) this one takes the cake. Twice twice.
You are downright funny… 😁
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Thanks – I was quite pleased with this one
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You are a clever, clever man, James. That one must have been fun to write, right?
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It was a lot of fun
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