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Originally Posted by ricky_lectrik
Though it was originally used as a poetry scheme, I would use it in a songwriting sense.
To put my own personal flare into it, I was thinking about setting up a mid-line rhyming scheme as well. I don't want to take away from the free-style versing by rhyming verse 1,3 or 2,4 - but I do want to make it plausible as a hook in song.
Example:
The path, it's dark you'll stumble.
Just do your best to walk straight.
Atlas' struggle, hark his tale.
Both cannot be shrugged.
Not so much for the lyrics, but opinions on the style?
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Hi, Ricky,
Yes, I like the free-style "Chinese style" "Tie-in verse" pattern you are describing, which is interesting conceptually (much like a haiku), but with which I was not familiar before you mentioned it. I also like your midline rhyming scheme because it helps cement the lines together and uses repetition in sound to mirror the conceptual linkage among the lines. I do feel this pattern you describe would be very useful in songs. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
The only older lyric style that I have used/am using in a song is the sonnet, and so it would be nice to include other structures to give a satisfying connection to the past while involving modern twists. I have always loved poems that rhyme in some way...perhaps because of the mental chess involved in writing them...and so using some sort of structure or form as the basis of a song appeals to me. Since you like chess, I am curious whether this relates to your interest in poetic structure? Also, have you observed much poetic structure in modern music lyrics (with which, to be perfectly honest, I am not very familiar)? The impression I get is that many modern songs lack much traditional structure and are free verse with repetition of free verse fragments.
--Erica