A Poem About How To Rhyme When Writing A Poem

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