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New Rhyme Scheme Practice (Kanye)

*The excerpt begins at 0:48
Penitentiary chances, the devil dances/
and eventually answers to the call of Autumn/
all of them fallin’ for the love of ballin’/
got caught with 30 rocks, the cop look like Alec Baldwin/
The Rhyme Diagram
12, —2/
12—–3/
33— 3/
—4, 4–3/
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1 Penitentiary, and eventually
2 Chances, dances, answers
3 Autumn, all of them, fallin’, ballin, Baldwin
4 rock cop
Explanation
In the quatrain Kanye created his bars with a fairly simple structure;
beginning it with 2 consecutive multi syllable rhymes and ending them
with a rhyme that contains the same number of syllable as the previous
of the same rhyme (#).
To replicate the rhyme scheme:
In bar 1 try to limit the beginning of your bars to 7 syllables for the first part
while creating you rhyme (1 &2), for the second part focus on keeping it to
5 syllables and ending with your rhyme (2). This bar’s sharpness stems from
the syllable usage and the synergy it has with the second.
In the beginning of bar 2, focus on sticking to the same syllable count when
inputting your rhyme (1&2) afterwards immediately follow it up with 6 syllables
including you end rhyme (3).
Begin bar 3 with 2 consecutive rhyme (3′s) and afterward use the same
6 syllables, including end rhyme (3), to complete to bar as bar 2.
Bar 4 is just a basic bar with two internals(4) and an end rhyme (3).

1 syllable

2 syllables

3 syllables

4 syllables

5+ syllables

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