By Trying To Kill Off Rhyme Poem by Francis Duggan

Many of the twenty first century literary critics applaud the passing of rhyme
As something that belong to another time
But rhyme does live on in the words of the song
With music to dance to and with to sing along
Many of the literary critics who claim to be well read
Would like you to believe that rhyme it is dead
By trying to kill off rhyme they try to kill off song
In some of their thinking they do have it wrong
Many of the great rhyming poets among the forever gone
But their songs and their poems sung and read and live on
If some of the twenty first century literary critics did have their way
The writing of rhyme would be a crime today
But rhyme does survive despite what some of it does say
And to that i do feel like shouting hooray.