As Of Another Time

Though they are dismissed as of another time

The rhymers they never do run out of rhyme

What was popular in the past most literary critics agree

Has become the doggerel of the twenty first century

Today there are rhymers in every town

Who will never know of literary renown

Rhymers nowadays not seen to be worthy of any literary note

We are in the literary era of the non rhyming poet

To literature as in most things time with it change does bring

Of the praises of the novelist and the playwright and the blank verse poet the literary critics do sing

And rhyme is dismissed as a thing of the past

Few things as is known in time ever does last

Their sort used to be popular in Seasons long gone

Though true to their calling the rhymers rhyme on.