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kleinbl00 · 3766 days ago · link · · parent · post: Poem from a reddit user about the second ISIS beheading. To the tune, probably intentionally, of Masters of War.
The problem is rhyming doesn't make poetry and poetry doesn't require rhyming. Most critics of poetry hate on Kipling a lot but he wouldn't write "for you and for yours."Doggerel is usually the sincere product of poetic incompetence, and only unintentionally humorous, as with the work of Julia A. Moore, the "sweet singer of Michigan":