Bern wrote: >Bruce, When I am not writing poetry myself I look at what other people have >written. It is sometimes an eye opener but then we all use Poetic licence >when writing. Believe me half of it does not rhyme ,Bern. > > >http://members.teleweb.at/bernard.shaw/poetry.html Amen to that, Bern! I tend these days to go with mostly "free" (no rhyme OR set meter) or "blank" verse (with set meter but no rhyme) when I write poetry, but occasionally the rhymes just present themselves. I don't think any of the PD poems on my website are rhymed (if I remember what's there!) In the "blank" verse category I'm especially fond of iambic pentameter ...... Camilla Hewson Flintermann <[log in to unmask]> http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm "...everywhere I go, I find that a poet has been there before me..." ...Sigmund Freud