We've done quite a bit of discussion on the various uses of rhyming in the Canon:

• singling out an entire body or block of content
• singling out a couplet of content (for emphasis, particularly at the end of a speech)
• content from outside the play itself--poems, songs, even entire plays that are performed within the context of the scene
• portrayal of other worldly-entities
• rhyme as answer

Now, The Two Gentlemen of Verona has MUCH less rhyme than last month's Love's Labor's Lost, about half as much as our opening The Comedy of Errors, and about twice as much as The Taming of the Shrew.  So... how's it deployed?

Scene	Use	Notes
I.ii	answer	Lucetta answers Julia in all cases passing judgment on suitor: Meratio / so so passing judgment on suitor: Proteus / folly reigns in us of Proteus: name / shame of Proteus: rest / best of Proteus: me / ye of Proteus: small / all of men: show their love / know their love of the note: concerns / concerns Lucetta isn't confounded by anything Julia has to say
	couplet of content	on occasion, Lucetta will complete her own couplet (fine/mine, hate/ruminate)
I.iii	answer	Antonio answers Proteus weakly: wish / wish
	final four lines	Panthino and Proteus share an ABAB two-speech quatrain
II.i	answer	Silvia answers Valentine once: on his poem: like it? / quaintly writ
	assorted couplets	Valentine and Speed
II.ii	final couplet of scene	Proteus come / dumb
II.iv	answer	Proteus answers Silvia courtly but weak: servant / servant Silvia answers Thurio: you / Thurio Valentine answers Proteus: alone / own
	final couplet	Proteus: will / skill
II.vi	opening triple repetition	Proteus: forsworn / forsworn / forsworn
	closing	Proteus: swift / drift
I.i	opening couplet	Julia: me / thee
III.i	Duke / Valentine advice sequence	rhyming couplets, including one instance of Valentine answering the Duke: her / her
	verse	Duke reads Valentine's poem to Silvia ABAB CDCD EE
III.ii	answer	Duke answers both Thurio and Proteus her / figure; hate / hate
IV.ii	song	Proteus to Silvia
IV.iv	answer	Proteus answers Julia (Sebastian): pity her / pity her
V.iii	answer / final couplet	Silva answers outlaw in final couplet
V.iv	answer	Silvia answers Proteus twice happy / unhappy; beloved / beloved
	closing couplet of speeches	Valentine in speeches to Proteus accurst / worst; free / three
	closing couplet of speeches	Julia reveals herself to Proteus
	closing couplet of speeches	Proteus, Valentine
	closing couplet of PLAY	does NOT rhyme

It's a mess...  The answers (save for Lucetta's of Julia in Act One Scene One) are pretty weak, sometimes mere repetition.

But instead of being disappointed (like I was over yesterday's anomaly-less use of verse versus prose), I think we're hitting upon something here... something I'll hit next week.