There Ought To Be Some Place In Poetry For Rhyme Poem by Francis Duggan

They do write in English but never in rhyme
Those referred to by the literary critics as the poets of our time
Of language they seem to have a great command
Though their poems I do struggle for to understand.

But what matter their poetry does seem to please
The literary critics with uni degrees
But the music in their poems I struggle to see
With we all cannot be clever one has to agree.

Would Burns be anonymous if he were living today
For in his poems the music a huge part does play
But forgive me my lack of intelligence if I seem to miss
The beauty in their poetry ignorance can be bliss.

Though music and modern verse does not get along
In good rhyme there is music the source of a song
And though some do dismiss it as not of our time
There ought to be some place in poetry for rhyme.