(at the end of a sonnet)

On the other hand, because rhyming couplets have such a predictable rhyme scheme, they can feel artificial and plodding. Here is a Pope parody of the predictable rhymes of his era:
:: Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze,"
:: In the next line, it "whispers through the trees;"
:: If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep,"
:: The reader's threatened (not in vain) with "sleep."

In English poetry

Regular rhyme was not originally a feature of English poetry: Old English

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