Literary fun fact:

When Paradise Lost was first released in 1667, it was reasonably popular, but got a number of complaints that it "rhymes not." So, by the 1674 edition, it came with a note at the beginning aggressively talking shit about rhymed verse, calling it "the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame meter..."

(Source is the Second Norton Critical Edition of Paradise Lost, edited by Teskey)