A rhyme is a crime, some people say
inhibits the flow in each single way;
you can’t paint a picture of life as we know it
if you’re caging yourself to words that befit
an end of a line has to rhyme with the last
poor Shakespeare would turn in his grave, aghast.
And when you’re thinking of the bards of old
such stories they translated in their day
these epic tales recounted now and told
in patterns of a sonnet they did play
If Byron, Keats and Shelley were all wrong
what use is there for people such as me?
who pen their rhymes into a modern song
whilst other poets hands are truly free!
I don’t bemoan a rhyme used here and there
in fact I think they’re rather useful tricks
I never get them tangled in my hair
in awe I read their use and am transfixed.
Release your inner Shakespeare for its time
to have some fun with good old-fashioned rhyme.
Really clever Shan! For someone who loves free verse, I always feel rhyme is constricting…however, it can also be liberating…
Bought the first smile of the day, thanks for that.
Oh..can’t help it! I do so love the rhyme
Great write Shan, as per the norm! lol Happy Monday!
Very clever Shan, but I see you’re beginning to like rhyme more and more as you complete these exercises. Actually I do find them useful. I really worked on that Emily Dickinson kind of thing today and found (even though until the last verse I had no idea if I were “saying” anything) that the use of internal rhyme with end consonance really pleased me. I liked the playful use of rhyme and the rhyme about rhyme here. Hope lots of folks stop by for a read. Really well done!
Hi Shan – so you like the dark background theme to your blog too
– I’ll “here, here” the comments above – I often find forms and rhymes restricting, spent two hours the other evening trying to write a “rhymer” and ended with a pile of poo. Loved this poem for it’s views on the classics, your humbleness and talking about sonnets – within a sonnet – very cool 
Hear, hear! I dig this completely. What would poetry (and kissing cousin music) be without a good rhyme? Excellent!
yeah – release your inner Shakespeare Shan…smiles…this was a clever write
Very clever Shan ! Love this rhyme on rime !!
JL&B
Yeep, gotta give in to the tyme ev’ry now and then. Great piece.
Rhyme, I meant to type, unless tyme was kool in some hip unintended way:)
very well done…love how you switched up the rhyme scheme part way through as it really played the pace…
and once more I leave here smiling, dear shan. they before me said it well, clever and imaginative
nice rhyming 
Monty / bummy
well played…rhyme as well as reflection on rhyming…
it was a delightful read.
it turned whimsical in the end. #enjoyed
What a witty response to the prompt!
You awe me Shân! Well done and very entertaining.!