They don’t always have to rhyme! Some of Shakespeare’s most famous lines - as well as great epic poems like Milton’s Paradise Lost - are written in blank verse (non rhyming Iambic pentameter).

E.g from Book 1 of Paradise Lost:

Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the Fruit of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav’nly muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav’ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos....

(Modernist free verse also tries to shake up traditional poetic principles and tries to reformulate different forms’ conventions when it comes to rhyme and rhythm.)

But remember: whether poems have a regular rhythm (or Meter if we use poetic terminology) like Iambic pentameter or an irregular or inconsistent one, they are in one way or another using, playing with or adapting the inherent rhythmic nature of speech. It may not be an obvious rhythm ...or a poem may have inconsistent rhythmic structures but all poems will show some consideration of how words/sounds are ordered and hence will have rhythmic features.

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Do poems have to have rhythm or rhyme?

The KKK has roots in the post-Civil War era in America. With Southern states lacking clear governance after the abolition of slavery, and in economic, social and political disarray, many white landowners, ex-slavers and confederates (those who fought for the South to remain separate from the unification process) took to establishing “order” themselves. As a vigilante group the KKK emerged to control, threaten and ultimately punish black Southerners and any white allies supporting black civil rights, justifying their violent actions as measures needed to restore “morality” and “decency”. Explicitly championing white supremacy and anti-black politics, members of the KKK believed (and continue to believe) themselves to be safeguarding “the American way of life” based on xenophobic principles. 

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What was the mission of the Ku Klux Klan?

Enjambment is a poetic technique where incomplete sentences, without punctuation, run onto new lines. For example this extract from Wilfred Owen’s Disabled:

Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes 
Passed from him to the strong men that were whole. 
How cold and late it is! Why don't they come 
And put him into bed? Why don't they come?

What is enjambment??

Derive means to get something from. So if an object is a “derivative of....” something it means it has come from that entity

What is derive

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