Poetry Challenge 17: Tell ‘Em We Landed Slanted
The problem with rhymed poems is that exact rhymes tend to start sounding stale after a while.
Been/Again, Go/Flow, Aunt/Grant and so on and the reader will eventually start filling in the end of the line before it comes because the poet is forced to lean on familiar phrases and awkward structures to complete the rhyme scheme.
This challenge asks you to write a rhyming poem that utilizes a majority of slant rhymes, or near-rhymes, rather than exact rhymes.
Been/Friend, Feed/Concrete, Goes/Float. The important part is the final vowel sound instead of the whole last syllable. Not only do they sound natural and subdued than a perfect rhyme scheme, but it also gives any given line a lot less predictable.