You’ve heard of rhyme schemes, the various ways you can arrange sounds to link lines and create sequences of motion. In this article, I want to look at rhythm’s ability to do the same thing: sometimes ...

Songs are made for ears, not eyes. Because people listen to songs, you learn to write for eyeless ears. Rhyme creates the ear’s roadmap through the lyric ideas. It tells your ear where to go next, ...

From the simple AABB rhyme pattern of Kurtis Blow’s “The Breaks” in 1980 to the complex rhyme schemes of rappers like Eminem and Kendrick Lamar, emcees have taken all kinds of approaches to rhyming ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — After breaking his maiden in dazzling fashion at Ellis Park in June, Rhyme Schemes is likely to be a heavy favorite in today’s Grade 2, $200,000 Saratoga Special, a 6 ...

Last week, the Collegian published an opinion stating that the poetic environment at Kenyon discourages rhyme.  This article characterizes the poetry curriculum here as inflexible, and that has never ...