One of the biggest factors in a coherent essay is said to be the end-rhyme. Not only does the end-rhyme of a line sound better to the ears than say a non rhyme, the choice of words and semantics can cleverly balance themes such as irony. It would also be hard to argue that rhymes do not sound better than regular words in everyday language; many of our favorite phrases are rhymes that describe every-day chores and occurrences. The bottom line: pleasantly sounded rhymes exploit our pleasure of harmony and consonance. The poet writing in stichic most be keen to line integrity – that is, whether or not each line works to form a whole poem, or whether the poem is full of run-ons, creating a “symphonic sense of flow and flux, a sort of tidal variation”. The use of end-stopping or run-on sentences can greatly set the tone and effect of the language used; traditionally, stichic poetry maintains a high degree of line integrity.…