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).