Dr. Seuss

Anapestic tetrameter is the rhyming pattern of Dr. Seuss.

Theodor Geisel wrote Green Eggs and Ham because of a bet with his publisher (Bennett Serf) that he could not write a book using only 50 words.
He wrote The cat in the Hat with 225 words from a 1st grade vocabulary list in an attempt to "kill off the tedious Dick-and-Jane primers of the 1950s" (Kantrowitz 68). Suffering from creative block, he started with the title, which came from the first two words he found that rhymed.


A Reason for His Rhymes
Kantrowitz, Barbara. "A Reason for His Rhymes: the Real Dr. Seuss Wanted Children to Love Reading Books." Newsweek. (2000): 68. Print.

more about Dr. Seuss' method in Dr. Seuss: Rhymes & Reasons

"Dr. Seuss: Rhymes & Reasons." Biography. Writ. Peter Jones and Brian Tessier Dir. Mark A. Catalena and Brian Tessier A&E Television Networks. Peter Jones Productions, November 2003.