A thing which has neither rhyme nor reason makes no sense, from either a poetic or logical standpoint.
‘Rhyme or reason’ is first recorded by John Russell, in The Boke of Nurture, circa 1460:
As for ryme or reson, ye forewryter was not to blame,
For as he founde hit afore hym, so wrote he ye same.
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