The mouse ran up the clock. There is so much happening at once in a successful, memorable nursery rhyme. From multiple meanings and uses to certain sonic qualities and rhymes and characters.

To A Mouse is about, well ... but they don't have to. Free verse is poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm. 'Bacon sizzling on Sunday mornings.Hot buttered toast.Crunch, crunch ...

"I only like poems that rhyme." Or, more drastically: "If it doesn't rhyme, it's not a poem." These declarations of allegiance to end-rhyme sound traditional or even daringly reactionary ...