The moderns say iambic verse is dead-

to be cool you must write freestyle instead.

Iambic pentameter in rhyming verse

is targeted now as the very worst.

Even the Bard could not write this today

and not have some trash him to his dismay-

though all formal poems and rhythmic feet

the mods now consider as obsolete.

Iambic rhyming verse is trite they say-

badly outdated and has had its day.

Made the butt of jokes and slanderous mirth-

pendulums swing, it will have a new birth.

But it’s not how packaged that makes it right-

or that makes a poem clichéd and trite.

Because it’s content that determines this-

iambic rhyme, free style or other tryst.