21. Try Rhyme

Almost as simple are poems in rhymed couplets (two rhyming lines) or quatrains (four rhyming lines). If you use couplets, the last words in each line should rhyme.

I wish I could unLOCK
The secrets of a cLOCK.

If you use quatrains, you can rhyme just two of the four lines, or you can rhyme that last words in every line. Here is a quatrain in which only two lines are rhymed:

This morning, late for class, I skipped a
My cornflakes and, gung-ho, departed. b
Nice timing! I made history c
Before the Civil War got started b