Rhyming poetry

Freida Hughes writing in The Times says ""There are some basic do's and dont's when writing poetry. Rhyme is nice but it is entirely up to the poet - in which case lines must scan."
Not so, writes Wendy Cope in a letter to The Times a day later: "There are some rhyming forms, such as the clerihew, which rhyme but do not scan. And rhyme without metre can be found in the work of a number of reputable poets - Ogden Nash and Paul Muldoon, to name but two."

One of my favourite Ogden Nash poems is:

"The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks,
Which practically conceal its sex,
It is amazing how the turtle
In a such a fix can be so fert'le."

And one of my favourite Wendy Cope poems begins:

"Bloody men are like bloody buses -
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear......"

Here's the opening of one of mine:

"I've a dirty old suitcase all covered in grime,
I'm putting it in for 'The Turner',
And an old garden gnome that is dripping with slime -
I'm putting that in for 'The Turner';
My mother-in-law's cat which is dead and is stuffed
It sits on her lap and she's terribly chuffed
But I don't like the in-law or cat half enough
So I'm putting them both in for 'The Turner' ."

Well it rhymes and it scans - what more do you want - Art?