January 13

When you read poetry, do you find yourself becoming uncomfortable when the poems have reason but no rhyme? Is it distracting to have to spend a great deal of time and energy trying to put a rhyme in a poem that has none? After all poems, are supposed to rhyme, right? Well you can blame Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, who died on the 13th in 1547, for your discomfort. His works are the first known examples of blank verse.