The Value of Half Rhyme This article doesn t mention the positive aspect or the value of half rhyming or slant rhyming that would sometimes attract great poets including Yeats and others Here are a few attractions of slant rhyme First it allows a poet to break away from what Milton complained about in rhyme or the jingle jangle of perfect rhymes It allows the poet to use rhyme but with subtlety and with the device itself being less assertive Second it makes available to the poet yet another tone or quality a tone that is different perhaps softer and novel Third it offers the poet opportunities for irony and ironic humor when the rhyme makes an issue of the amount of distance it travels away from a perfect rhyme