The Rhyming Mind

Poetry has been praised, feared, footnoted, and force-fed to students for centuries. But here at The Rhyming Mind, we’re not reciting it reverently—we’re interrogating it like it owes us rent. These are not your classroom chalk-and-dust dissections. This is poetry in its full, chaotic glory: with stanzas under the scanner, similes in therapy, and metaphors stripped of their false modesty.

Lyric-Scroll 010: Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Most Existential of Them All?

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Sylvia Plath’s Silent Psychologist Tells You the Truth You Didn’t Ask For ABS Believes:Sometimes poetry doesn’t speak. It reflects.And sometimes the scariest part of your house isn’t the attic—it’s the bathroom mirror. Welcome to the World of Reflective Horror Sylvia Plath didn’t write poems. She wrote precision instruments. And in Mirror, she gave us a […]

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Lyric-Scroll 009: The Embroidered Roar: When Feminism Hid in Wool and Still Bit Back

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Marriage, Metaphors, and the Art of Looking Fierce in Embroidery ABS Believes:If you can’t roar out loud, stitch your rebellion into fabric.Some women wear strength. Others sew it—and let it outlive them.   Meet Aunt Jennifer: The Quietest Rebel in the Yarn Aisle Adrienne Rich gave us poetry that raged. But Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers doesn’t

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Lyric-Scroll 008: If You Can Stay Calm While Everyone Else Self-Destructs: Kipling’s Emotional Instruction Manual

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Stoicism, Sweat, and One Man’s Quest to Explain Manhood in 32 Lines (Without Breathing) ABS Believes:Some poems hold your hand. This one slaps it, gives you a checklist, and walks off.“If—” is less a poem, more a poetic gym instructor yelling through rhyme. Kipling: The Poet Who Wrote Pep Talks in Pentameter Rudyard Kipling didn’t

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Lyric-Scroll 007: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock: When Anxiety Ordered the Crab and Forgot the Toast

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A Poem About Tea, Time, Bald Spots, and the Unbearable Weight of Maybe ABS Believes:Some love songs serenade others. This one apologizes to itself before saying hello.Poetry doesn’t always roar. Sometimes, it just measures life in spoons and sighs. Meet Prufrock: The Man Who Overthought Breathing If Hamlet got older, balder, and started shopping for

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Lyric-Scroll 006 : The Tyger: When Blake Asked God If He Was Okay

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Fear, Fire, and Feline Existentialism in Rhymed Couplets ABS Believes:Some poems purr. This one prowls.If creation is a question, Blake made sure it came with claws and chaos. William Blake: Poet, Painter, Prophet… Possibly Sleep-Deprived William Blake wasn’t your average Romantic. While the others wandered through daffodils or wept over nightingales, Blake opened the gates

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Lyric-Scroll 005 : My Last Duchess: When Victorian Dukes Invented Red Flags

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A Portrait, a Power Trip, and One Very Polite Murder ABS Believes:Some relationships end with closure. Others end with a frame and suspiciously poetic euphemisms.A smile may be priceless—but in the wrong hands, it gets taxed, confiscated, and posthumously curated. Enter the Duke: Monologue Extraordinaire, Murderer (Allegedly) Robert Browning didn’t write love poems. He wrote

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Lyric-Scroll 002 : The Road Not Taken: When Frost Made Indecision Sound Like Philosophy

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Why That Yellow Wood Might’ve Just Been a Metaphor for the Breakfast Menu ABS Believes:Sometimes, poetry doesn’t show us the path—it mocks us for needing one.Frost wasn’t offering wisdom. He was documenting human confusion in verse. Robert Frost: The Quiet Flirt with Regret Robert Frost: the poet who made nature broody and roads metaphorical before

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Lyric-Scroll 003: Dylan Thomas to Death: One Very Loud Refusal to Die Quietly

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Why “Going Gentle” Is for Lamps, Not Legends ABS Believes:Some poems whisper. This one punches.Because going gently is fine for fairy lights—not for fire-hearted poets. The Drama King of Doomsday Literature Dylan Thomas didn’t write poems. He detonated them. He wasn’t content with soft sighs or tragic acceptance—he wanted fireworks, echoes, and a baritone battle

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Lyric-Scroll 001. T.S. Eliot and The Waste Land: When Modernism Had a Meltdown in Five Acts

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Poetry, Prophets, and Post-War Panic—With Bonus Footnotes Nobody Asked For ABS Believes: Some poems whisper. This one throws a shattered mirror at you and dares you to find meaning in the reflection. T.S. Eliot — The Man  Who Made Confusion Profound (From mental fog to footnotes, and still somehow Nobel-worthy) Before there were lyrics about

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