Quotes About Rhyme

I am my own parent when it comes to rapping and do impromptu stuff. Being a rapper, you have to be good at improvising, like you give me a word and I have to rhyme it quickly and then make sense out of the rhyme.

For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

Green Eggs and Ham' is fire.

My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it - what a masterclass in writing.

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

A lot of underground hip-hop will inspire me as far as rhyme patterns - really wordy, intelligent lyrics.

But there's nothing that gives me more thrill than when I'm writing and a couplet works. I find the right rhyme, or it's just perfect. There's nothing that exciting.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

You know, Slick Rick was tight at telling stories.

For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses, With which like Ships they steer their courses.

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

As Mark Twain says, "History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

We know the dear old rhyme: — "It is good to be merry and wise, It is good to be honest and true, It is good to be off with the old love Before you are on with the new.

My wife killed herself. He said, My wife took her life, like a rhyme. Do you blame yourself? She had often said it, that she would. She'd had every kind of treatment. Eventually it becomes hard to know how to handle it. Like Dora: I can always die, always die. Caro said, There is the damage on both sides.

Je t'aime, Lottie. Plus qu'un zloty. I hesitate, not sure what to say. Well, it's a start.... 'I love you, Lottie, More that a zloty'? Lorcan translates incredulously. Seriously? Lottie's a difficult rhyme! Richard says defensively. You try! You could have used 'potty,' suggests Noah. 'I love you, Lottie, Sitting on the potty.' Thanks, Noah, says Richard grouchily. Appreciate it.

Once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme.

For though my rhyme be ragged, Tattered and jagged, Rudely rain-beaten, Rusty and moth-eaten, If ye take well therewith, It hath in it some pith.

Dignity, virtue, affability, and bearing ," Mrs. Lytton recited over and over, turning it into a nursery rhyme. Georgiana would glance at the glass, checking her dignified bearing and affable expression. Olivia would sing back to her mother: "Debility, vanity, absurdity, and… brainlessness!

You: Why did you pick my first name? Your dad: I don't remember. You: I see. Can you give me an example of something else you can't remember? Your dad: Uh . . . what? You: Did you like the sound of my name? Your dad: Yes. Your name rhymes with platypus, and that has always been one of our favorite animals.

The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years...

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.