1. Writing Lyrics Stage 5

2. Rhyming Techniques Internal Rhyme –Rhyming of two words within the same line of poetry. The following, for example, is from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” : Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore

3. Rhyming Techniques Rich Rhymes –Rhyme using two different words that happen to sound the same (i.e. homonyms) – for example “raise” and “raze”. The following example – a triple rich rhyme – is from Thomas Hood’s” A First Attempt in Rhyme” : Partake the fire divine that burns, In Milton, Pope, and Scottish Burns Who sang his native braes and burns.

4. Rhyming Techniques Slant Rhymes (also known as imperfect rhymes) –Rhyme in which two words share just a vowel sound or in which they share just a consonant sound. The following example is also from Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” : Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun

5. Rhyming Techniques Eye Rhymes –Rhyme on words that look the same but which are actually pronounced differently – for example “bough” and “rough”. The opening four lines of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, for example, go : Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:

6. Rhyming Techniques Identical Rhymes –Simply using the same word twice. An example is in (some versions of) Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could not Stop for Death” : We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground— The Roof was scarcely visible— The Cornice—in the Ground—

7. Analysing Lyrics Look and listen to the lyrics on the next slide and identify the different rhyming techniques. List examples of the different rhyming techniques from the song

8. Closer by Ne-Yo Turn the lights off in this place And she shines just like a star And I swear I know her face I just don’t know who you are Turn the music up in here I still hear her loud and clear Like she’s right there in my ear Telling me that she wants to

9. Just a Dream by Nelly I was thinking 'bout her, thinkin 'bout me Thinking 'bout us, what we gon' be Open my eyes yeah, it was only just a dream So I travelled back down that road Will she come back? No one knows I realize, yeah, it was only just a dream I was at the top and now it's like I'm in the basement Number one spot and now she find her a replacement I swear now I can't take it, knowing somebody's got my baby And now you ain't around baby I can't think I should've put it down, should've got the ring Cause I can still feel it in the air See her pretty face, run my fingers through her hair My lover, my life, my shawty, my wife She left me, I'm tied Cause I knew that it just ain't right

10. Write Lyrics In your workbooks or on your computer write your own lyrics on anything you like Write a verse and a chorus Must include some rhyming techniques