about rhyme.

[Keith]

aish said in another thread...and i quoteth her "Fuck's sake. I don't even like rhyme "

from what i see, rhyme seems to take a back to non rhyming poetry as far as decent quality poetry is concerned, in general much of the stuff I've read from the last two or decades has been blank verse, or almost blank verse along with a fair bit of free verse. while i have read a lot of rhymed stuff, it's the former two that seem prevalent. is there a reason why we moved away to far from verse as to make seem foppish or old-hat.
it could just be, i'm not as well read as i should be but it's what i see.

I'm not sure, who decideds what is decent quality poetry and who writes it ?.....if you were to ask my son's this, the answer would be Snoop Dog and Alex Turner (Arctic Monkeys) because songs and Rap, rhym therefore, they are poems. They would say Blank verse is clever poetry and appreciate it for this reason but their reference will always be good song lyrics. So, maybe one reason to move away from verse would be to distance one's self from songs.
I belive Rhym is on the assendance due to poeple like Alex Turner (modern day poet) Elvis costello (latterday poet) and there should be room at the inn for all. Maybe this is bollocks.