Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1893 — What Poets Need. [ARTICLE]

What Poets Need.

A whimsical letter written by W. S. Gilbert notes “a great want" among poets. “1 should like to suggest,” he says, ‘ ‘that any inventor who is in need of a name for his invention would confer a a boon on all rhymesters and at the same time insure himself tunny gratuitous advertisements if he were to select a word that rhymes to one of the many words in common use that have very few rhymes, or none at all. A few more words rhyming to ‘love’ are greatly wanted. ‘Revenge’ and ‘avenge’ have no rhyme but ‘Penge’ and ‘Stonehenge;’ ‘coif’has no rhyme at ail; ‘Starve’has no rhyme except (oh irony!) ‘carve.’ ‘Scarf’ has no rhyme, though I fully expect to be told that ‘laugh.’ ‘calf’ and ‘half’ are admissible, vyhich they certainly are not.”