A. Christine Myers
1 min readNov 22, 2019

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Loved this look at rhyme from a historic perspective as well as a functional one.

I can’t supply any poetry about Organic Chemistry, but your article did bring to my memory William Whewell’s accidentally(?) rhyming lines about geometry:

“And so no force however great can stretch a cord however fine into a horizontal line that shall be absolutely straight.”

A fine iambic tetrameter, abba stanza there.

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