A rhyme doesn't make a song.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
It's difficult to learn poems off by heart that don't rhyme.
Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.
In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.
There's something so wonderful about writing in rhyme where it isn't just the meaning of the words, it's the music to the words and the shape and the sound.