Rhyming in "New World Water"

In the poem "New World Water", Yasiin Bey uses rhyming to criticize the world's water use and to show how important it is to conserve it. Water has become so mundane to us that we don't see how precious it really is. We have created so many uses for it that we forget to cherish it and tend to waste it. He criticizes oil pollution by saying, “Used to be free, now it cost you a fee/ Cause oil tankers spill they load as they roam across the sea”(Bey, 32). He chooses to rhyme "fee" with "sea" to convey the message of how bad the water situation has gotten. He is speaking about how it is not…