Lesson 3 · Marcus

The Internal Rhyme

End rhymes are obvious. Internal rhymes are where the real work happens. An internal rhyme — a rhyme that occurs within a line or between the middle of one line and any part of another — creates a hidden architecture that makes a verse feel inevitable without the listener knowing why.

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Marcus takes this apart properly inside Songmatter — the rest of the lesson, the exercise that goes with it, and a critic who reads what you write back.

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