Great teachers of four centuries. An outline history of the great movements and masters of the past four hundred years, that have shaped the theory and practice of the education of the present..

It is more than likely that this will hold true in your work too. One of the great faults we вЂamateur’ poets are prey to is lazy and pointless rhyming. If a poem is not to rhyme then it seems to me very silly indeed arbitrarily to introduce rhymes from time to time with no apparent thought but apparently because a natural rhyme has come up at that moment. So let us look now at good and bad rhyming, or convincing and unconvincing rhyming if you prefer. вЂDeferred success rhyming’ as those nervous of the word failure would have us say. III Good and Bad Rhyme? There are two issues to consider when rhyming: firstly and most clearly there is the need to avoid hackneyed rhyme pairs. For the past seven hundred years poets have been rhyming love with dove, moon with June, girl with curl and boy with joy. Certain rhymes are so convenient and appropriate that their use had already become stale by the mid 1700s. Alexander Pope was fierce on the subject of bad rhymers in his An Essay on Criticism:While they ring round the same unvary’d chimes,With sure returns of still expected rhymes.Where-e’er you find вЂthe cooling western breeze’,In the next line, it вЂwhispers thro’ the trees’;If crystal streams вЂwith pleasing murmurs creep’,The reader’s threaten’d (not in vain) with вЂsleep’ ...»