A rhyme it needs a rhythm

To help it lilt along

Without this rhyming rhythm

To me, it sounds all wrong

 

Why can't I write a rhyme

That sounds like Jack and Jill

To me what is important

Is it's done with rhyming skill

 

Many rhymes are bad rhymes

They just rhyme cat with mat

(And yes, our cat he did sat

And wondered where he's at)

 

Skill is non-existent

Rhyming words inane

Messages escape me

Wasted verse, no gain

 

So rhymes they need a rhythm

And if like Jack and Jill

Then cleverly constructed

With no cat/mat rhyme fill

 

Don Matthews April 2018