Reverse for Reverse

Reverse Verse is a new form of literary expression (as far as I know...)

It is verse where the rhymes are at the beginning of lines, the following may be the first example ever?

Life Line

Life stuck on a bleak plateau

Chancing dice now demanded

How to break the frozen cycle

Lancing the boil of my fear

Dancing might just do the trick

Sunbeams sharpening slanting in

Prancing fiercely back and forth

Now much more up than down

Glancing at your smiling face

Enhancing life with simple abandon

Chris Fewtrell 29^th January 2015

But... Stuart Randall came across the following, which is called: 

 

First-Word Rhyme

What fiend has set us such a fearful task -

To write a poem where the rhymes occur,

Not at the end but at the line's beginning?

Do you suppose it's possible at all?

All right! Let's make a start but, first, we''ll curse

His ancestors and all his kith and kin;

Call down the wrath of heaven upon him too.

This done we shall proceed in proper form.

So we must choose a theme. Let it be such

That fertile fancy may full freely roam;

No limits should be set to genius' play;

At least no more than there already are.

But there's one limit that we must observe;

It's laid down in the rules. Just sixteen lines

Cut off imagination's furious flow;

Wits curdled, we can end the matter here.

John Stanley Sweetman

So, sadly,  it's not a new form of literary expression at all...