My Pre-Posthumous Explanation For My Preference to Compose Strictly in Verse

99 per cent of those who come to like my verse will likely not have heard of me while I was still alive... But...knowing well that finely-metered -- perfect-rhyming poems are mostly what, for countless years, have tended to survive, I elected, from the start...while Academia cautioned...“Few are keen on cadence, sir…and less are fond of rhyme”... To join the ranks of kindred poets...penning what I feel shares the authenticity that’s stood the test of Time.