isitreal - 4:56 pm on Jun 16, 2004 (gmt 0)

rhymes access a more fundamental part of the human brain, they get interpreted by the 'musical' nodes of the brain, that tend to offer more direct access to core functionality than words do, it's also why music works in ways that language has problems doing, something like the inner priviliges windows grants certain processes.

this was discussed extensively by Heidegger, I also witnessed this process first hand when my girlfriend at the time's father was dying of a brain tumor, they removed the speech component of his brain, but he could still sing songs, and rebuilt his language capabilities using that part of his brain.

there's a reason things like the vedas, all long epic poems, were done in rhyme, it's easier for the human brain to retain that kind of structure than an essentially random construction, when those were created they were passed on by memory, no print or web, and that's the best way for our minds to remember long passages.