Forced Rhyme Schemes.

I'm personally guilty of this myself, so perhaps I'm being mildly hypocritical with this post; however, it really gets on my nerves when I see someone doing a lot of great work, and trying so damn hard to play across a lot of emotion and perfect grammar and good flow - then they ruin it when they feel like their poem would work better with a robust rhyme scheme that just ends up destroying the whole idea and rendering the theme moot.
Can I get an Amen if you agree. xD

Amen.

I see it all the time and feel like a broken record when I make review after review saying,
"Hey, trying saying what you mean to say and not letting the rhyme scheme divert you from the perfect words, from your actual message."

But I think it's just something we slowly go through. We think poetry is rhyming, so that's how we do it. Then one day we say, "hmm, maybe I should try a free form poem, just to see how it goes", and then all of a sudden the world opens up for us. Which is why I don't get too angry. If they continue working on their poetry, they'll get there eventually...

I hope. c:

SO AMEN.

Amen.

I've seen alot of my friends writing with good ideas. But their ideas tend to get a bit lost when they sit there for hours, thinking of rhymes to make it 'better'. So, amen.

Although I'm a a sucker for rhymes,
I do agree that they can be crimes,
At times forced,
At times hoarse,
More so when the poem has no meaning,
Devoid of feeling, the poet screaming
Rhyme after assonance,
without any resonance.
But once in a while, rhyming can be gems,
Did I tell you that I'm quite fond of them?

danipower0204, that was terrible. xD

How about a case that's better?
We'll agree that rhymes can fetter
poetic expression simply because
we're taught in school that rhyming was
the One Thing that makes a poem so.
One day we all will come to know
that such is simply not the case
as on that day we shall erase
all our notions, preconceived,
as we go out and, poetry, read.

Until that day, let us hold fast
against forced rhymes; they shall not last.

(Amen.)

Amen.

I started off writing lyrics, rap lyrics to be more precise. So, the training period of rhyming got taken care off. A dozen rap battles on online forums are 'forced' witness to it But I guess gradually it's become an inherent quality of my poetic texture, though I'm experimenting with free/blank verse poetry these days - I'd say the rhythm is hard to lose, once gathered