Letters | Modern verse

Our readers opine on the death of rhyme

Poetry isn’t dead, is what they said

Bob Dylan plays piano with a harmonica around his neck during the recording of the album 'Highway 61 Revisited' in Columbia's Studio A in the summer of 1965 in New York City, New York.
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Our article charting the decline of rhyme in modern verse (“Feeling averse”, May 31st) touched a nerve with readers, some of whom are budding poets it seems. Here is a small selection of their responses.

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