If we are to publish a collection of all the verses composed
by these illiterate rhymers in a year, it will take up a great many volumes … If
one is to estimate what percentage of the population of this country are rhymers,
the figure should not be less than that of any other country in the world. We love
rhyming so much that we versify not only in our own traditional genres, but also
in those of other languages.