Question

Why is it easier to understand a poems's rhythm and rhyme patterns when you read it aloud?

Answer 1

Because the spoken form is often not immediately apparent from the written form...

Explanation:

Concerning the rhythm, it is not immediately apparent from the written form of a word how many syllables it has.

For example:

• "strengthened" has two syllables.

• "banana" has three syllables.

Concerning the rhyme, words with quite different spelling may have similar sounding endings (at least in a some dialects):

For example:

• "terror" and "thorough"

• "cough" and "ruff"

• "close" and "rows"