You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.
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.
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.
Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.
The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.