I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.
If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be Lyrically, Talib Kweli Truthfully, I wanna rhyme like Common Sense But I did 5 mill' - I ain't been rhyming like Common since.
A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.
Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
I have my faithful rhyming dictionary that sits up there on my desk, but I have to tell you, there are very few new rhymes that I didn't think of. I often just go right through the alphabet in my head when I'm looking for a rhyme.
Ever since roughly 1890, when snot poets first decided that rhyme was confining and unnecessary, every idiot with a pen fancied hisself a poet. The mere act of rhyming was suddenly regarded as a quaint, mannered, and uncool atavism, consigning doggerelists like me to the trash bin of literary history.
I don't have a problem rhyming "bar" with "car" - I do it all the time - but sometimes it doesn't feel right.
I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.
As I grew older I found that I really had a knack for rhyming and I pursued that. So by thirteen I got serious about using my writing and rhyming skills. I did it everywhere I could.
You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense.
