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The (historical-chronological) present time includes some past time, and probably some future time. So can the (grammatical) present tense, but not in the same way.

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future.

perseverative. And also, sure, playful and mischievous. "Incantata" likes to rhyme Beckett against himself (Acacacac-, quaquaqua, Quoiquoiquoiquoiquoiquoiquoiq). "Near Izium" (which has Ukraine front and center) gets away with "Putin"/"Biden" (cat/dog type antirhyme).

two yarrowrhyme poems are "The Triumph" (from Howdie-Skelp) and "Near Izium" (from Joy in Service). "The Triumph" is in terza yarrow-rima, while "Near Izium" has an idiosyncratic couplet-tercet patterning. These were never, "exploded sestinas" (pace and imho) but something else ruminative and

the "Yarrow" rhyming template. Last time I joked that though Muldoon can't quite rhyme "cat" and "dog", he could rhyme "cat" and "god", and now he's gone and done it, in "Frolic and Detour" (though in the original we do find "God" and "gatto", not to mention "Kattegat", so-). The other

7/ and, importantly, the consonants themselves admit variations, especially in voicing, so that:

coulter→gelder
truck→drag
Baba→Papae

These are all true Muldoonian yarrowrhymes, and the reason why "cat" and "dog" don't rhyme, but "cat" and "god" do!

6/ vowel nucleuses. But it's more complicated in Muldoon, since consonants can travel, both in clusters and across them. So for instance the template KLTR is realized in the yarrowrhyme poems in various ways, including the most basic:
coulter→kilter→culture
but also:
kilter→clitoris→Killeter→clatter

5/ forms, including couplets, octaves, italian sonnets, and terza rima. The predominant rhyming convention is pararhyme, also called consonantal rhyme. That's when "cat" and "cut" rhyme, or "fact" and "fucked", i.e. the terminal syllables match CXC, with identical onsets and codas, and variable ..

4/ of Muldoon's capacious rhyming grammar (and vocabulary). To give a sense of the scale of the yarrowrhyme poems, to 2018 they counted over 3200 lines, with 3400 rhyme-words, all generated from 90 syllabic templates. The poems themselves are in a variety of conventional, adapted, and suigeneris ..

3/ Muldoon can rhyme "cat" and "dog" suggests a heroic rhyming power, and also an element of the unnatural, and also the sense that any syllable, seemingly, can produce a deluge of rhyming pairs. In yarrowrhyme, you can't rhyme "cat" and "dog", but you /can/ rhyme "cat" and "god", because ..

2/ this is still a productive template -- given the length and complexity -- and seemingly entrenching its early associations with elegy and sorrow. The elements of virtuosity are themselves worth parsing out, and for me anyway the payoff of the exercise. The hyperbole that ..