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In One Tribe I thought they rhymed amensia with "feed ya" which is still horrendous, but better than evil
In One Tribe I thought they rhymed amensia with "feed ya" which is still horrendous, but better than evil
I think this has suffered from some decay-I think people use it to describe anything that isn't a perfect rhyme nowadays.
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I've noticed this too. It is important to consider that context of how the lines come across in the song, instead of just scrutinizing every rhyme on a purely technical level. A lot of these are noticeable at all in the song. Also, several of these entries assume that every line has to rhyme with a previous line, but some of these songs are structured in such a way that I'm not sure the lines were even supposed to rhyme. An example is the entry for "How to Save a Life".
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I'm not sure I understand this page, doesn't this include every rap song ever?
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Yo it's legit
oblique: a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (one/thumb) assonance: matching vowels. (shake/hate) consonance: matching consonants. (rabies/robbers) half rhyme: matching final consonants. (bent/ant, orange/porridge) identity: rhyming a sound with itself or a homophone. (foul/fowl, grace/disgrace)
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English is not my mother tongue, but I really don't get why some of the mentioned rhymes are in there. They may be overused, but they don't look to me as painful as girl/world, for example.
- Baby/maybe
- Fingertips/lips/hips
- Fire/desire/higher
- Table/able
- Moon/June/spoon
- Fly/sky/high
- Heaven/seven
- Dance/chance/romance
- Groovy/movie
- Lonely/only
- Good/hood
- Be/Me
- This/Kiss
- Walk/Talk and Walkin/Talkin
- Town/Down
- Drink(ing)/Think(ing)
- Cup/up
They aren't bad rhymes- I mean, they do rhyme perfectly with each other. They're just considered cliches nowadays- especially ones like heart/apart, high/sky/fly, or fire/desire. Inevitably, you probably will be rhyming be with me eventually, but for the most part, it's encouraged to experiment a bit. However, if you can find a way to use these rhymes in a way that smoothly helps along the lyrical quality without hindering it, then I see no problem with using them anyway.
It bothers me that so many of the rhymes on this page are perfectly reasonable rhymes, especially where they make sense. It's ridiculous to call out Paul Mc Cartney for rhyming "day" and "way" when there are examples like "I won't attend your pity party/I'd rather go have calamari." The page needs a cull so the examples are more pertinent.
(Also, why is the formatting automatically adding a space after Mc?)
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Would it be appropriate to add something Benedick says in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme. I have tried. I can find out no rhyme to “lady” but “baby”—an innocent rhyme; for “scorn,” “horn”—a hard rhyme; for, “school,” “fool”—a babbling rhyme; very ominous endings. No, I was not born under a rhyming planet
"It's common for amateur poets to do this, since they often rigidly adhere to an "ABAB" rhyme scheme, forcing them to twist their verse into grotesque contortions."
Funnily enough, my usual scheme is "ABCB", where only the 2nd and 4th verses rhyme. I also tend toward "looser" beats, and I've noticed people are prone to getting the beat pattern 'off' when they read it out loud. Also, some of my rhymes technically fall under "not-quite-a-rhyme", but I guess I manage to pull it off. I dunno, is it fair to count every "not really a rhyme" as this trope, even if it can somehow be made to work?
Run This Town (Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West) has a wonderful moment near the start. "We are, yeah, I said it, we are, This is Roc Nation, pledge your allegiance..." only the third syllable sounds more like 'jar' and Jay-Z quickly throws in a 'nce' sound at the start of the next line.
Digital Analogy
I wonder if Metallica's "Master of Puppets" counts as Lampshade Hanging
"Hell is worth all that/natural habitat/just a rhyme without a reason"
In porto perse vitulus est.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Split:
, started by Frank75 on Mar 21st 2011 at 3:48:47 PM
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