• When Is Star Wars’ Rhyming Poetry Too Much?

    When Is Star Wars’ Rhyming Poetry Too Much?

    Star Wars, on many levels, exists in series of parallels and couplets — a cycle of the rise and defeat of darkness, the fall and rebirth of light, an echo of a story told over and over across generations of families and civilizations. “It’s like poetry, they rhyme,” George Lucas says in the Phantom Menace…