Chapter eight goes into depth about meter, rhyme, and form–explaining the meanings and significance of using them in poetry. Most people think a rhyme just consists of words that sound similar such as “hide” and “tide” but, there are also such things as slant rhymes, vowel rhymes, eye rhymes, and of course strict rhymes. Before reading this chapter I was not aware that eye rhymes existed. An eye rhyme is something that doesn’t sound similar but appears to the eye–a visual rhyme; for example, “plough” and “cough”. A cool detail about rhyming is that it can be used to emphasize significance–in other words to intentionally highlight a word the author wants to stand out to the reader. There are many different forms of poetry, you got the traditional form: a sonnet, petrarchan, shakespearean, and spenserian. The original sonnet originated in Italy. What I found interesting about this chapter is the meter aspect of poetry–it is not something I would have expected to play a role in poetry but now I can see why it matters.