My second session with the new Creative Writing course group. (Hi guys!) Today we were looking at the way that rhyme works in modern poetry, so we did the usual theoretical stuff (defining "perfect", "slant", "masculine", "feminine", "light", "eye/sight" and "wrenched" rhymes), using Carol Ann Duffy's Betrothal, Don Paterson's Imperial and Archibald McLeish's Ars Poetica as examples. …
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