I assume so because I don't see a time and the site is international but I just want to make sure.

Mark, is this still open? How do I apply?
Thanks ... Mike

I think of it as one of the ways to impose structure on a poem so that it avoids being prose with line breaks, and one that delights the ear. I know there is also eye rhyme but I tend to think of rhyme in terms of sound.

While bees are keen on honey,
men prefer sweet money.
If nectar dearth affects one or the other,
you will see bee against bee, brother against brother.

Looking forward to learning! AABB - seems to hold a "cheerier" rhythm than most other rhyming patterns.

It took a little bit of time
to come up with this workshop rhyme,
but here it is, my stanza dear
for those to read, both far and near.

Please just trust, it’s nothing bad
I need to destroy the.......................................................... evidence
Just a little something driving me mad
It won't win a prize for......................................................... elegance
reverence
92
precedence
92
benevolence
92
decadence
92
severance
92
irreverence
92
prevalence
92
malevolence
92
seroprevalence
92
inheritance

Elegance ...........................84 rating
I was not quite happy with elegance
so I went hunting to rhyme zone and found elegance is okay

but with a lower rating you may decide....... others have a rating of 92

one lady introduced her own brand of rhyme----- all aaaaaaaaaaa
land bands and grand hand sand and so on she also created some meaningless ones

You may examine scribbler our teacher...i just come to see ur progressing interesting festering lingering herring so I can also signal and as and when ring in final lol

"You will not tame this sea
either by humility or rapture.
But you can laugh
in its face."
from The Sea and The Man by Swir
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You will not tame this ocean
either by rapture or devotion
But you can caper
in its face

That second couplet was rough.

From OCDC

The bar of soap
sits precisely in the shower
with the dove resting upright
lest she feels the need to fly.

The soap, smelling of coneflower
sits precisely in the shower
with the dove resting upright
lest she feels the need to take flight.

L

Yesterday the sky was blue,
today the sky is gray.
Rain and threatening clouds rushed through
and chased the sun away.

L

To make my kitchen remodel final
about floors I needed to think.
Would tile, linoleum, or vinyl
better handle a flood from the sink?

I set sail on a seven-mast schooner
to an island in the sea.
I would have reached land sooner
if my sea legs had accompanied me.

On a seven-mast schooner I sailed
toward a tropical Pacific isle,
but the brawn in my wobbly legs failed,
and I found myself floating the Nile.

Hope I did this correctly! A very fun and challenging exercise!
L

If you are superstitious, you'll never walk on cracks
When you see a ladder you will never walk beneath it
And if you ever spill some salt you'll throw some 'cross your back
And carry 'round a rabbit's foot in case you need it
from Superstitious by Shel Silverstein
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If you are superstitious, on a crack you'll never halt
When you see a ladder, underneath you'll never go
And you'll throw some 'cross your back if you ever spill some salt
And just in case you need it, wear a cornicello

It's an amulet that looks like a hot pepper used to ward off the "evil eye." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornicello

Yes, Mark should have taken one to Patty's den.

May I join?

Can I sign up for the remaining exercises?............PJ

Thank you Scribbler,
Be careful what you wish for.........

"That is a great self portrait." - no Alan, the ears are far too small.

Scribbler, I live in US/CT and have found it hard to keep up with when one lesson starts and the next begins. Especially since the sidebar dates are slow in changing. I think it would be helpful if "Assignment 1" or "Lesson 1" -- along with the date it was assigned -- were displayed more prominently. This is my first workshop, so forgive the dumb questions, but since you are the leader/teacher, I assume all assignment responses are directed to you and that your comments are the ones I should most heed. Others can offer constructive criticism, I understand that, and I suppose my two-cents can be thrown in as well. But, as they say down home, "you da man" Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks ...
Mike DiPrima

I'm not CST but I also think numbering the assignments would help, especially since the threads get long. I feel like I missed an assignment somewhere but am not sure.

now! Just with a date.

Stan:i

The last line of this stanza feels okay to me, but technically is it too long and is the near-rhyme okay?

And so they wooed and got betrothed,
but before they dared to take the oath
the parents had to meet each other --
the Sicilian Cicirellis and the Tennessee Caruthers.

Glasgow
a rhyming poem by John Hegley

as we walk across the bridge across the Clyde
I talk of the tide
and the spring
and the spring in the suspension
but do not mention our tension
is there any hope of a bridge over that divide
Stephen
a rope even
or must we remain as strangers
like the Pope and Glasgow Rangers