From the course: Writing Great Lyrics
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Rhyme scheme
- [Instructor] When it comes to rhyming in songs, the rhyme scheme is pretty critical. First of all, rhyme is a device that songwriters have used for ages in lyric writing. And that's because rhymes are designed not only to make a lyric sing more pleasantly, but also to make the lyric more memorable. Another way to put more memorable is easier to remember. The more easily our listeners remember our songs, the more likely those songs are to get stuck in their heads. However, it's not just rhyming that makes lyrics more memorable, but the repetition of the rhyme structure. By keeping your rhyme am scheme the same in similar sections, in other words, from verse one to verse two for example, you'll be creating a lyric that listeners, and hopefully the artist considering recording your song, will find more learnable and more memorable. So what I mean by that is if your rhyme scheme in the first verse is AA BB, in other words,…
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