Why does AABB sound so much shittier than ABAB? It's really obvious when they contrast in a single piece, the 2nd stanza feels like the work of a 3rd grader compared to the 1st and 3rd.
If I read the rhythm of the verse then the AABB doesn't sound as bad as just hunting for the end rhyme.
The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter; grac't indeed since by the use of some famous modern Poets, carried away by Custom, but much to thir own vexation, hindrance, and constraint to express many things otherwise, and for the most part worse then else they would have exprest them. Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish Poets of prime note have rejected Rime both in longer and shorter Works, as have also long since our best English Tragedies, as a thing of it self, to all judicious eares, triveal and of no true musical delight: which consists only in apt Numbers, fit quantity of Syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one Verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoyded by the learned Ancients both in Poetry and all good Oratory This neglect then of Rime so little is to be taken for a defect though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar Readers, that it rather is to be esteem'd an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recover'd to Heroic Poem from the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
>>24681985It's because ABAB sounds like a single four-line stanza, while AABB sounds like two couplets, so there's more unity in the first.
ABBA chad here
>>24681985SO MONOTONOUS THAT IT SOUNDS RUDIMENTARY; RHYTHM FALLS FLAT.
I can't believe such a stupid thread got any (You)s
>>24682155IT IS NOT STUPID: YOU FEEL «LEFT OUT» DUE TO NOT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT POESY.
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>>24682152Explain the beauty of Chaucer and Pope, then.
>>24681985*Emily Dickinson in your path*One of the most famous poems in EnglishNow what are you gonna do, punk?The horses stopped, what was that smell?A dead rat or a skunk?Never mind, it's just OPAnd he's a dirty punk
>>24682187Wtf I had the pic selectedAnyway here it is
>>24681985I've been writing a long poem about a boy imagining a hypothetical bus trip to go and visit his sister. It's mostly blank verse (with a rhyming couplet at the end of each stanza) but there are a few "bursts" of rhyming instilled (mostly when the characters are conversing—which is to say how he imagines they're conversing); the ones I've written so far have the following rhyme scenes:>ABABCBCCB>ABABBCBCCBCBCC>ABABBCBBCDCCDDAs well as a few mid-stanza outbreaks I've really come to enjoy these more dynamic rhyme schemes that mix up the order more so than the actual rhymes. They have a seamless musicality to them that dances on your tongue while you're reading them. Been reading the Faerie Queene lately which I think has infected me with its luscious ABABBCBCC.But to answer your question OP: it's because it sounds like rap music
>>24681985ABBA chad here
>>24681985pope's epigrams mog ABAB
