Force Rhyme

 Hola Partner! Again I am here with a short blog, trying to convey all I know about forced rhyming! Ever felt eww while penning down some lines in which you force in some ugly words to match rhyme scheme? Awesome if you haven't, and awesome even if you have, it's perfect for you to be here. So let's catch some of those poetic phrases.

 ~ The water seemed heavy on the thick eye lashes...

The face was shaped like dull paper mashes...~

So, yea kinda made to look funny, just made that up. Here what we feel is a bit eww isn't it? The first line was nice, next one with the same rhyme I could have said, "the eyes had dreams looking messed like mashes"... So yea it could go well, but logically, eye lashes and water have nothing to do with paper mashes. So if I couldn't think something rational, I framed one forced rhyme here. 

Firstly, know this. RHYMING IS NOT EVERYTHING! Poetic styles are for beauty, and the phrases follow a pattern that look good to people, based on choices, of course. Rather, most of the poetic forms show tongue and run away to rhyme schemes! (Most, not all, of course).

 So what we try to do is either don't be too worried about non rhyming lines. The phrases must seem beautiful (note: I am not praising my lines as it seems, I am calling it good in comparison to what I had written in the example. Calling my face like paper mashes). Here's an attempt, where I didn't write rhyming words, but I have made it poetic.

~ The water, seemed heavy on those thick eye lashes...

The tears, the heart, poured out of those black wonders

Her eyes, could be called a magic, with deep mysteries enclosed...

Only a minute later I realised, they were tears of joy! ~

Okay, so it still was fine isn't it? Rhymes I haven't considered, but the meaning goes deep. So henceforth, it won't be unfair to accept non rhyme poems as nice. 

Now, the harder part comes when you are writing a rhyming poem but are stuck in some stanza, and confused over using a word that is irrelevant and struggling for a good relevant word. Then we can edit the initial line for which we need to continue the flow. For example, in "The water seemed heavy on those thick eye lashes..." I struggled for the next line that sounds bad. Either I can fully omit this line, or I can replace position of words to work it out. Here it goes:

~ The eye lashes bending with the heavy water...

Were wet with sweat of a lazy potter... ~

Wohooo! See I penned another horrible example of force rhyme! So for my initial purpose, had I used this phrase, it would have been better (kinda interpret this example as a way to correct parts like force rhyme... Although I ended up in force rhyme, I can still interchange places of words and make out something yet awesome!)

I hope you've got the basic idea majorly on rhyming poems, i.e. force rhyming basically! I am eager enough to see you pen an awesome rhyme poem that flows well, and gives no feeling of force rhymes!

Regards,

Aaditya (Member of PoeTree FoRest)