Carrie Coon

I rarely get recognized, and whenever I do, it has to do with 'The Leftovers' because it came into someone's life at a particularly important time for them - if they were dealing with grief or loss or whatever tragedy - and they just caught it. And there is no rhyme or reason to the kind of person it is.

American Actress

Ice T

I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

American Musician

Mike Posner

It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.

Big Daddy Kane

What earns my respect is... I love great lyricists, artists that can create incredible rhymes or incredible songs. The same thing goes if you're a singer. I definitely respect that.

American Rapper

Rap - it's a childhood passion. Writing rhymes, it's something that I was doing before rap records even existed. And I will continue to write until I can't write anymore.

Al Green

There's more to hip-hop than just trying to make everything rhyme, and you find out in life that everything don't rhyme. The music they're cutting is musically fantastic.

B.o.B

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.

India Arie

I'm not just making rhymes and making melodies. I'm expressing my true life force, energy.

Saul Williams

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.

Stephen Sondheim

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

American Composer

Rhyme gives poems a musical rhythm, helping with memorization and recitation.

Poetic Device

The matching sounds often occur at the end of lines and involve the last syllable.

Matching Sounds

Rhymes can be perfect, slant or internal, depending on sound and placement.

Rhyme Varieties

Rhyming is a skill in writing that can add creativity to lyrics and poems.

Creative Expression

Rhymes should feel natural, not awkward or contrived to fit the pattern.

Forced Rhymes

Rhyming can be playful and make language learning more enjoyable.

Fun with Language

A rhyme can be a whole poem, often with a structured rhyme scheme.

Literary Piece

Rhymes can tell stories with a rhythmic and engaging flow.

Narrative Tool

Rhymes are easier to memorize and recite, useful for storytelling.

Ease of Remembering

Nursery rhymes are simple and help children learn language and rhythm.

Childhood Learning

Many rhymes are traditional and passed down through generations.

Cultural Classics

 the question, "Why does the world exist?" that's the cosmic question, it sort of rhymes with a more intimate Why do I exist? Why do you exist? you know, our existence would seem to be amazingly improbable, because there's an enormous number of genetically possible humans, if you can compute it by looking at

Why does the universe...

 How passionate? What actions does your passion lead you to do? If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing. The OKR framework cultivates the madness, the chemistry contained inside it. It gives us an environment for risk, for trust,

Why the secret to...

 pleasing form of human communication but just because we like rhymes does that mean we can be influenced by them are we more likely to believe a statement if it rhymes my research shows that rhyming statements are easier to understand that non-rhyming statements this is a

A True Clue PIPE Duck...

 In the next few years, more and more messages came, and he memorized and taught them. The verses he recited were full of wise sayings, beautiful rhymes, and mysterious metaphors. But Muhammad was a merchant, not a poet. Many agreed the verses were indeed the words of God,

The five major world...

 surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever,

"To This Day" ... for...

 from the future or the past or across the world, because their patterns can seem to tell you what's in somebody's heart. It says poems can bring people together temporarily, which I think is true, and it sticks in my head not just because it rhymes

Stephen Burt: Why people...

 "So long lives this and this gives life to thee." In fact, this type of specific consonance, which occurs at the beginning of words may be familiar to you already. It's called alliteration, or front rhyme. Great examples include tongue twisters.

The pleasure of poetic...

 the razor wire that defends the power station and the sewage works finds its rhyme in the briars and the brambles that coil sharply just behind it this is essex mashed up mixed up the human and the natural there's nothing easy here it's hard it

The Other Side of Essex...

 these downturns in world economic conditions what if Africa's civil society had been strong enough to expose and limit the misuse of power I will close I have offered three episodes in Africa's history which might suggest a rhyme with

Africa’s rhyming history...

 are all singing songs of your affection with rhymes to your perfection in my eyes see a reflection