while in A Christmas Childhood, “ditch” is rhymed with “touch”. One of his late poems, the Petrarchan sonnet The Hospital, is a riot of outrageous rhyming: “ward” with “snored”, “bridge” with “pledge”, and “lorry” with “transitory”. ...
Ted Merwin, David Kaufman, Ben Zimmer, Jeremy Dauber, Bernard Spolsky, Sharon Gillerman, the reviewer, participants in my JewishLive Shavuot lecture, and many of my Facebook friends for tips that improved this chapter. This