"rhyme is seen as anachronistic by most poets"

[Leanne]

When people say "rhyme" they tend to mean "end rhyme". Like any device, it becomes passe when people keep using it in predictable ways -- but to say that something that's fallen out of favour with a noisy few from a single nation or small group of nations in the last fifty years or so after having permeated culture in myriad ways for thousands of years is just a bit arrogant, in my opinion.

Of course, it depends on your nationality and how closely you adhere to trends rather than going in your own direction. In my accent, "shit" rhymes with "hypocrite".