Bad Poetry (solution)

by Alex Calhoun and Ashley Destra Freeman

Each poem has two blanks, which can be filled with eye rhymes, words that visually look like they should rhyme, but don’t rhyme audibly. Each poem also describes or references a film that is a remake of an earlier film.

All the eye rhymes need to be identified, as well as the films referenced. From each poem, the first word of the eye-rhyme pair is ordered using the years that the original films were released. The second word of each eye rhyme pair should be ordered using the years of the film remakes. In two columns, taking the first letter of each eye rhyme word will produce the phrase: POEMS BY LOW CASTE / ARE SUBJECT TO BAD. This clues the puzzle answer TASTE, which is an eye rhyme for CASTE.

Puzzle #	1st rhyme	2nd rhyme	Film(s)	Original Year	Remake Year
1	LEASE	EASE	The Thing From Another World / The Thing	1951	1982
2	OVER	COVER	The Fly	1958	1986
3	APLOMB	TOMB	Bedtime Story / Dirty Rotten Scoundrels	1964	1988
4	SUIT	JESUIT	The Lady Vanishes	1938	1979
5	SHOVE	TROVE	La Femme Nikita / Point of No Return	1990	1993
6	TAUGHT	DRAUGHT	Infernal Affairs / The Departed	2002	2006
7	PATE	EQUATE	The Ten Commandments	1923	1956
8	EAST	ABREAST	Ju-on / The Grudge	2003	2004
9	BEAT	SWEAT	The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek/ Rock-A-Bye Baby	1944	1958
10	OLIVE	ALIVE	The Dawn Patrol	1930	1938
11	EXAMINE	ROUTINE	M	1931	1951
12	MOUTH	UNCOUTH	The Old Dark House	1932	1963
13	YEAR	BEAR	Rashomon / The Outrage	1950	1964
14	WIND	BIND	Ocean’s Eleven	1960	2001
15	CROWN	OWN	The Parent Trap	1961	1998