After the publication of "Footnote to Youth" in 1933, Villa switched from writing prose to poetry, and published only a handful of works until 1942. During the release of "Have Come, Am Here" in 1942, he introduced a new rhyming scheme called "reversed consonance" wherein, according to Villa: "The last sounded consonants of the last syllable, or the last principal consonant of a word, are reversed for the corresponding rhyme. Thus, a rhyme for "near" would be "run; or rain, green, reign"."