In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

"Love" is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like "move". The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as "love" and as "guv" - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

One does not become a guru by accident.

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.