Comment by bonoboTP

> our culture has trained us to take rhyme less seriously

I was surprised to learn this about Anglo culture (that rhyme is associated with childishness), as in Hungarian poetry all serious works (up to, say, the mid-20th century) are in rhyme. Sad and serious or happy and joking, rhyme is just expected. In fact, if something doesn't rhyme, then the average Hungarian would say it can't by definition be poetry (even if they know about "free" poems).