The Washington Post, October 17th, 2004
Rainer Maria Rilke called rhyme "a goddess of secret and ancient coincidences." He said that "she comes as happiness comes, hands filled with an achievement that is already in flower." Rhyme has the joyousness of discovery, of hidden relation uncovered, as if by accident. It is a form of relationship and connection, of encounter and metamorphosis. Rhyme occurs, as Joseph Brodsky argued, "when one thing turns into another without changing its substance, which is sound." It creates a partnership between words, lines of poetry, feelings, ideas. (Gerard Manley Hopkins called rhyming words "rhyme f...
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