Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden by Lucas Cranach (1530)
Rhyme is one of the most noticeable features of poetry and song. The pleasurable recurrence of rhyme — of hearing deliberately repeated sounds within a text — helps to make poetry memorable. Yet, within English-speaking cultures, rhyme is a promiscuous device, encountered in many different contexts. You will find it in advertising (for example, Tesco’s strap line for their home shopping service, ‘You shop we drop’), and in pop songs, like Lily Allen’s hit single ‘The Fear’:
There is rhyme of course in A-level set texts, like Philip Larkin’s ‘An Arundel Tomb’:
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