ABSTRACT
Sandy Brownjohn’s Does It Have To Rhyme? Well of course it doesn’t, although pupils undoubtedly enjoy rhyming poetry, both listening to it and striving towards it
for themselves. One danger of suggesting to young writers that a poem must,
should or can rhyme is that, if they go for it, the sense gets lost in the process. How
often have we read through a pupil’s poem only to find that they’ve got those end
words to match, but what the hell does it all mean?
