. St. Nicholas [serial]. Not inall the words and words ofthe whole dictionary? Or for orange,or window,ormonth ? What are suchwords for, anyway, not tohave at least one good use-fulrhyme? They must havedone something, to be sin-gled out and kept to them-selves like that. They hard-ly ever get a place of honorat the end of a line, andwhen they do, it s only ahappen so, when any other word would do just as well. We League poets oughtto ostracize such words as silver, and month,and orange. Giveusgood reliable words withlarge families of related rhymes, such as boy,toy, joy, and annoy, bad, dad, m
. St. Nicholas [serial]. Not inall the words and words ofthe whole dictionary? Or for orange,or window,ormonth ? What are suchwords for, anyway, not tohave at least one good use-fulrhyme? They must havedone something, to be sin-gled out and kept to them-selves like that. They hard-ly ever get a place of honorat the end of a line, andwhen they do, it s only ahappen so, when any other word would do just as well. We League poets oughtto ostracize such words as silver, and month,and orange. Giveusgood reliable words withlarge families of related rhymes, such as boy,toy, joy, and annoy, bad, dad, mad, and sad. Why, words like those arealmost a poem in themselves! We hardlyany lines at all. Then there are boat and float and warbling note, and love and dove and skies above, all just full of inspi-ration and possibilities. But orange, win-dow, and silver! Suppose we just try towrite a poem with rhymes for those, and see whathappens. Not a long poem, of course; just twobrief stanzas that will take them all in, thus :. MILDRED CURRAN She ate a golden orange,All seated in the window ; T was served her in a porringe,Or by one who came from Hind,oh. Oh, merry was that golden monthThe moon was made of silver. Says she, I pray you go at wunth,Thith methage to delilver. Now what kind of poetryis that, anyway? Better thatshe ate a potato, served ona plate, oh, or that themoon was made of greencheese, if you please, thanto try to fit sense or evennonsense to such rhymes asthose above. Why, it s asbad as when some of ourLeaguers try to makecome rhyme with sun,or lake with skate,which seems to be a greattemptation about this timeof year. There are plentyof good rhymes for all thesewords. You can skate late,if your supper will wait,for instance, and the othersare fully as well suppliedwith useful rhymes. But asfor orange, month,window, silver, andall other such perverse andisolated parts of speech, theeditor is willing to rule themonce and for all out of the prize.) poets rhyming corner
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