Battle Rap

[milo]

Poets would have to focus more on rhyme scheme, rhythm, and the use of clever devices...

... more than what, exactly?  More than it's focussed on in a sonnet, perhaps?  Or a villanelle?  Or one of a thousand other forms, spanning millions of poems, that focus on rhyme scheme, rhythm (correctly called meter in structured poetry) and the use of "clever devices" like alliteration, assonance, consonance, metaphor, allegory and so forth, ad infinitum?  

I mean, of course it's only rap that rhymes, and a "rap battle" is a far superior kind of poetry to anything else that has ever existed -- otherwise it wouldn't be revolutionary, would it?

> For subject matter, IAMBOS 
> included pretty well anything that caught the iambographer's eye or 
> ear, but complicatedly obscene insults directed at named enemies were 
> especially popular. 
> 
> What all the various species of IAMBOS tended to have in common was 
> that they were personal, non-heroic, non-didactic, subversive and 
> funny. It ought not to be beyond the capacity of modern writers to 
> produce verse that is personal, non-heroic, non-didactic, subversive 
> and funny. 


Rap- 700BC Greece just called and they want their poems back.