Rhymes

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rhymes

Title text: I'm going to start using that first panel for all of my twitter replies.

Votey

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When paradise lost was first published in 1667, it was popular, but there were many complaints

So, by the 1674 edition, there was a weirdly

Combative note at the beginning of the book, not just insulting the complainers, but the idea of rhyme in verse generally.

From readers that it "rhymes not."

'tis crap

the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame meter "

Aradise lost

When I first read this, I thought it was merely a literary fun fact.

However, it turns out to be useful in almost any

Context where you're asked to give an opinion.

self-assured mental chuckling

And how was your soup, sir?

It rhymes not!

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And its meter sucks!

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