#abcb rhyming scheme

[dreamscrape-navigator]

untouchable(s)

You are no more holy than The dust on every hand That carved those jewels from the earth And lifted bread from land

You are no more mighty than A pebble by the sea With each sequential drop the stone Pays mass for memory

Goliath who walks the ground With eyes up high and tall The lamb you bleed so readily Waits eager for your fall

[doctorwhoisadhd]

fucking fascinated with the way mitski just straight up DOESNT follow a rhyme scheme in just about any one of her songs i can think of (and even when she does it's only barely, aka only for part of a song or only rhyming using slant or identical rhymes) and yet she is known for her lyrics being fucking insanely good

[ktsphere]

I was at the studio record for tonight's taskmaster episode, so full debrief below the readmore! (Spoilers for TM S18E5)

[Some things may be paraphrased as I wrote it all down immediately after the episode record.]

ARRIVAL AND SEATING

We got to the studio at about 10:15am, there were approx 10 people there already

The staff didn't turn up till 10:30 so we made our own queue

Staff moved our queue and told everyone with cars in the visitor carpark to move them, they join the queue in their cars while people on foot queued in the rain

Lots of waiting around, then the queue was moved, then a quick security check, then wristbands and more waiting around. There were not enough toilets. There were snacks and drinks available to buy but no "real" food.

We started moving again at 12:45.

The first 22 people got orange wrist bands and we were put in the gallery! (11 on each side)

The gallery itself is only as deep as the chairs, it's very much only decorated on the sides that the camera can see.

The decoration behind us was plasticy and painted gold, kind of like paper plate material.

The wall was painted with the same pattern as the sides, but super small, gold on red, but looked less neat than the big stuff which is more visible on camera.

Underneath us was bare wood and we were in a metal frame.

My friend went to the loo and said Greg and Alex's seats arrived on the back of a trailer and stopped at the zebra crossing for her.

The studio was much smaller than I expected, 5 or so rows of seats in the front section, literally within arms reach of the seat 1 contestant. This looked like it was all people with a red wristband, who were 2nd after orange.

The back section was bigger, I'd say maybe 8 rows deep? And wider.

There was some reshuffling of seats near the end, some people who were right at the back were put in the front row at the last minute (probably some priority people didn't turn up?)

I don't think anyone's view was obstructed by cameras, but the left gallery couldn't see the contestants' faces, while the right gallery (including me) couldn't see Greg & Alex's faces.

(I did see Alex's shoulders sort of hunch every time he got the giggles though which was incredibly cute)

INTRO

Mark the warm up man got people shouting out & making noise (he comes back at every ad break, and every set change break)(some of the breaks he asked if we had any questions about the filming of TM and answered them to the best of his ability)(one time we played audience tinder, which is like audience guess who but based on 1 single person's romantic requirements (man, single, over 23, under 30. This got everyone out, and mark announced that was why she was still single.)

Mark brought Greg on

Someone shouted happy birthday

Greg: it's not today, it was on the 14th. I'm 55. Today it's ............................... It was.................

Someone in the Audience: it was on Tuesday!

[Note today is thursday]

Greg: At a certain age you stop counting birthdays. I woke up and realised I was closer to 60 than 50, And genuinely the first thing I said when I woke up, alone in my bedroom, was "blink"

Greg brought Alex on

Alex: I have some bad news

Greg: oh no

Alex: you're actually 56

Greg: oh what did I say?

Alex: 55

Greg: oh I was in a good mood and you've put me in a bad mood now

Greg asked the audience for help with Alex's improv

Alex was told to come up with a Pop song about corn

This was misheard by Greg as porn

They decided on corny porn

Greg gives Alex a beat

Alex [singing]: Sometimes a man gets lonely

*Greg and audience piss themselves, Alex breaks*

Greg: I thought I'd give you some time there to come up with a rhyme for lonely

Alex: oh I'm going for an ABCB rhyming scheme

[Slightly paraphrased in places because I'm not perfect]

[Greg beat starts up again]

Alex, Singing:

Sometimes a man gets lonely

And that man is Alex Horne

all his friends are out for the evening

So he opens his corny porn

[verse 2]

*Something about Cracker jokes*

*something about a boy and a girl*

*[I forgot this line]*

And then they have full sex.

(((If anyone was there and remembers these lines I will happily make edits)))

Greg: I thought you were going to shy away from the sex

Alex: oh, no, didn't shy away

Greg: they have legitimate sex

Alex: well they do love each other, so it's legitimate sex

Alex: But it wasn't being filmed

Alex: It was actually behind a closed door

Greg: so it wasn't porn at all

Contestants are introduced to the audience by greg before they all sit down

Andy zaltzman is wearing a snooker outfit, with cue and chalk. He is told (by Greg, who was told by the greenroom) to put the cue over his left shoulder so the cameras can see him. He says the producer told him to wear it over his right just before the show. Greg relays this to the greenroom, and then says [to greenroom] "bit harsh", and [to Andy] "he called you a lying cunt"

Babatunde aleshe

Emma sidi

Jack Dee

Rosie jones

The Makeup team come on, there's some admin stuff (fire safety etc)

Then it starts properly, they play the introduction on the big screen

Greg: A man who told me fire fighters are the ¿Least ?? ? Of all the emergency services.

Alex: I was most scared if this one because if my house burns down...

Greg: Well you should stop telling me these things

BANTER SECTION

Alex: The group chat is popping off

The taskmaster WhatsApp, we've had some questions

Alex: Question from Brian. Actually, a lot of people asked this. Are Greg and Alex twins?

Alex: Someone else asked if I was ok

Greg: yes I always wonder that

Alex: I had an ECG and felt better

Alex: an EGG

Alex: I had an egg.

Greg: *Groans*

Greg: You do it on purpose. I was in a good mood. You've put me in a foul mood. Is that really all you've prepared? Someone thinks we're twins, and you've had an egg.

PRIZE TASK

Thing that's best when you add water

Baba, trying to defend jelly to greg: "You know when your mums just like-"

Greg: "sorry I'm going to stop you there, it sounded like you called my mum a slag

*General confusion*

[They Continue]

Baba: you know when your mums a slag

*Everyone in the audience heard it this time*

Baba confused, everyone else pissing themselves

*Repeat multiple times, everyone getting more and more hysterical*

Baba: you know when Your Mum *Says*...

Greg, holding his ear piece: How likely is it the slag comments are going to be left in? The gallery says 100%.

TASK 1: Alex is a robot, direct to charging port, gibe an instruction every 10 seconds, robot wont follow instructions with o or e

Emma makes sexual moans when she sees the robot

Greg replays VT multiple times, she calls it "Platonic arousal"

Long discussion about mascots and those tall wobbly dancing tubes, and Mr blobby

Emma loves them all but they have to move

Greg brings up a butcher mascot which was a pig cutting parts of itself off, but it doesn't move so Emma isn't interested. If it moved she'd like it

Andy: Coming from a Jewish background, would the pig cutting parts of itself off be kosher?

Emma: no! [Pause for laughter/apology/embarrassment] sorry, no because pork isn't kosher. It's the trotters.

Someone: if the pig cuts its own trotters off then maybe it could be kosher

Greg: snip snip snip, out it goes

[There's a submarine in the garden?!!]

Emma, during task: walk lady

Emma, in studio: I changed it to walk by lady, I realised I could say by

Greg: Bisexual lady?

Emma: I'm not assuming the sexuality of the robot

Lots of "I mean him, not me" from Alex when talking about the robot

Rosie points out she got a lap dance from the robot

Emma: "Oh robot - we've found it!" (Or similar)

Greg takes the piss multiple times throughout the ep

TASK 2: make the strongest smell and put it in this jar. *Jar is sealed for 3-4 months until the studio record*

Rosie's sounds very very ominous, everyone is scared

On the back of the task it says anyone who is unwilling to smell their own jar gets 0 points

They talk about how that's definitely backfired on Rosie

Rosie: I'm actually quite excited, I want to smell it

Greg makes Alex read something out

Alex: oh, strange, this one is handwritten. Alex also has to smell the jars or Greg will kick him in the gooch

Emma pretends hers smells super strong, Greg describes it as mild

Baba: marmite and coffee, makes his eyes bulge

Rosie's is hugely disappointing. She repeats how disappointed she is. Greg doesn't believe her until he smells it and says he is also disappointed.

Andy's makes all the contestants gag (sardines, vinegar, huge mix of random crap, detergent, soap,)

Alex: I was surprised you went with things that remove stubborn smells

*The smells waft up to the balcony and to some of the front row. *

Jack's makes Greg lightheaded and have to pause for a bit (air freshener)

Later, in one of the breaks:

Audience member: why didn't Alex smell the smells?

Audience ooh and mutter

Mark: very good question

[Alex did not then smell the smells :( ]

TASK 3: Present a heartwarming local news story

[Team task!]

Rosie and Jack

Andy, Emma and Baba

The intro to this gets played again because they did some smelly pickups while the table was still out, and then packed it up again, and by that time everyone had forgotten what the task was.

Greg says Andy looks younger as Isabella the old lady than as himself

*Greg talks shit about both their attempts*

Greg says he thinks they both did really well

Alex: *do* you think that? It didn't sound like that

Greg says Emma could genuinely be a newsreader (Emma: middle class), then there was a whole section where Rosie and Greg talk about how alluring/hot Fiona Bruce is

STUDIO TASK: catapult parachute target

During set up we could see Alex on the side of the stage waiting for everything to be ready, we waved at him from the balcony and he waved back with confused but happy smile

The edge of the target was literally 50cm away from the front row. Front section were warned to 'watch out'

Mark: I wasn't sure I was allowed to mention it being a catapult

*Shadow of a catapult clearly visible through the screen*

Baba tried to shoot one really flat and it flew straight into the audience (3rd row!)

He immediately sat on the losers bench before the others had even gone

Emma's doesn't unfurl and goes 2nd row of the audience

Rosie Vs jack at the end: Rosie playing up the cerebral palsy deliberately to put jack off, stuff like "you wouldn't beat a disabled girl", and "I have cerebral palsy", "I didn't breathe for 17 minutes"

Jack really struggled to get his last shot because he was bent over laughing

It looked like a draw, Greg had to adjudicate

When he called a win for jack, Rosie pretended she was really struggling to walk over to the losers bench

After they'd all been:

Alex: I'm really glad they all flew. In the rehearsals we had loads of crap goes

Greg: How do you feel jack?

Jack: Guilty

Greg: And how do you feel Rosie?

Rosie: *Big fake sad face (which kept breaking)* "...*tiny broken voice* sad :( " *Followed by instant giggles*

TIE BREAK: how many days old will Alex be on Christmas day 2024? Have to be looking into his eyes the whole time

Emma Vs jack, Emma got very close, jack just gave up. Rosie actually got the closest (within 70? Days)

END:

And we've learned that my mum's a slag

We were told it was the first time ever all 5 contestants have won the first 5 episodes

*Contestants leave*

Man with crutches in audience [to rosie]: before this I thought you were so sweet (ominous pause) but now I think you're *wonderful* [Rosie hugged him!]

Greg: we all thought you were going to say something horrible. I was getting ready to put Alex between us

PICKUPS

Greg and Alex do lots of repeats for previous fuck ups and make lots more fuck ups.

*Talking to empty chairs*

Greg keeps apologising for how long it's all taking

Greg: we all want to go home

Greg: We're going to do a physical bit and you're going to absolutely love it. You'll know it when you see it.

*At the end of one of the pickups they both turn in their chairs and look at the blank screen. Audience love it*

Greg gets told by the gallery to repeat ¿papas meat?

Greg:shall I do it sexier? How much sex do you want? 8/10 sex?

Alex: you sound like Rachel

*They do a massive exaggerated turn to the screen*

Greg: I overcooked that one

They repeat the shakespeare bit 2 or 3 times. Greg says every time he's asked to do it again he'll ham it up more.

Alex: I'm really hungry, are you really hungry?

They did some extra "taskmaster the live experience" advertisment filming

Greg notices a really big man in the audience and asks him how tall he is (6'5") and then gets very distracted by his "brethren" and repeatedly flubs his lines

Greg: What are you doing?

Greg: Look at me you grubby little ferret

[This was repeated about 5 times because Greg kept fucking up, and then when he got through it Alex immediately fucked up the next line]

Greg said we were the best audience so far (he also said he wasnt lying or exaggerating. If anyone else has been to one, does he say this to evey audience?)

Got let out at 5pm

[Extra things that I can't remember when they happened]

Alex: When we watch telly together

Greg: ... Because we are actually lovers *puts hand on alex*

Greg: Or so some corners of the internet would have you believe

During breaks, makeup people come in and remove the lint from Greg and Alex's jackets, Alex gets a sticky roller, Greg gets a little brush

They dab Greg's head as well

Greg: I like making people on the internet angry

Overall a delightful day out, 10/10 experience, would recommend!

[i-scan-your-poems]

Would you please do a analysis of the famous "lik the bred" poem by reddit user poem_for_your_sprog?

my name is Cow, and wen its nite, or wen the moon is shiyning brite, and all the men haf gon to bed - i stay up late. i lik the bred.

"i lik the bred" is like maybe my favorite internet poem of all time! of course!

full scansion:

◡ – / ◡ – my name / is Cow, ◡ – / ◡ – and wen / its nite, ◡ – / ◡ – or wen / the moon ◡ – / ◡ – is shiy/ning brite, ◡ – / ◡ – and all / the men ◡ – / ◡ – haf gon / to bed- ◡ – / ◡ – i stay / up late. ◡ – / ◡ – i lik / the bred.

metrical form: iambic dimeter rhyme scheme: ABCB other notes: This could also be analyzed as AABB iambic tetrameter, but what I love about it is that after one long sentence, it breaks the syntactic unit in the middle of a couplet to create a surprising ending. Ink has been spilled over whether the non-standard orthography of this poem is intended to evoke archaism (as it is about an event that happened in an 18th-century historical reenactment) or the animal speaker (cf. the orthography of lolcatz memes).

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Another thing I love about the Les Mis musical (which I'm curious if they have in the French) is the hanging rhymes.

At certain points in the musical, the rhyme scheme and music make you feel like there should be a word that will rhyme with another, particular line. Instead of resolving it, though, it just...hangs. It never gets the satisfying resolution you want. And they use this so well, especially in Valjean's Soliloquy (which makes sense, as he is a character that does feel perpetually "unresolved"--always on the run, unable to rest).

First, there's a line early in the song:

My life he claims for God above--

Can such things be?

Now, technically, this line does have a rhyme, in the stanza before, but the music makes you forget about it:

Yet why did I allow that man

To touch my soul and teach me love?

He treated me like any other;

He gave me his trust! He called me brother!

By reverting to a couplet here, instead of keeping an alternating rhyme scheme, it makes the stanza feel complete. By the time you start the next phrase ("My life he claims for God above"), which is furthermore on a rising part of the melody, you kind of assume that it will get another resolution in its own stanza. But it doesn't! Instead we hear:

For I had come to hate the world;

This world that always hated me!

Our ears are primed to hear the word love again, or at the very least the word above reminds us of it--but instead we get two instances of the word hate! Valjean had hoped for love, but instead, hatred was all he was met with; the same thing shows up in the literal construction of the song!

There's another instance of a hanging rhyme at the end of his Soliloquy, which is probably the perfect example of how to use these well. His penultimate stanza is:

I am reaching, but I fall

And the night is closing in,

As I stare into the void

To the whirlpool of my sin;

This establishes an ABCB rhyme scheme: lines 2 and 4 rhyme. We expect the last stanza to follow this:

I'll escape now from that world,

From the world of Jean Valjean!

Jean Valjean is nothing now--

Another story must begin!

Yet here, line 2 does not rhyme with line 4! The word "Valjean" doesn't get a rhyme--it's left hanging, because "Jean Valjean is nothing now"! That name no longer defines the course of Valjean's story!

But what does define it? What does the final line rhyme with?

"My sin."

Even with his new life, Valjean won't be able to leave that behind.

What excellent wordsmithing!

[cherry-sandwich]

i genuinely love Eagles Can Fly so much. like it's such a simple concept but it's done so well i just. asdjhsfkjsd. slightly incomprehensible yapping ahead

as Natsuki says in-game, the poem is about giving up. pretty straightforward. i think there's also something to say about giving up and failing while other people (animals) around you are being successful and overall feeling inferior to others, which kind of plays into her continuously having to justify her interests and writing style in order to be taken seriously.

with that in mind, we take a look at the rhythmic structure of the poem (rhythmic structure may or may not be an actual term, but it sounds right). Natsuki specifically highlights the rhyme scheme of this poem and her choice to break the rhyme in the last line of the poem. the first four lines of the poem follow an ABCB rhyme scheme, so you'd expect the next four to follow this as well - but nope, it's ABBC. as Natsuki says, this subverts the reader's expectations and make the last line hit harder. the last line is also an outlier as the only line with 5 syllables and not following the preestablished format of [animal] can [verb], futher reinforcing its role in breaking the flow of the poem. on a more meta level, breaking a rhyme is also an action of giving up (on the structure of the poem).

it's also worth noting the rhyme in "fly" and "try", which already breaks the rhyme scheme without even considering the last line. when reading the poem, this results in the line feeling slightly out of place - like you skipped a line or something. this lends itself to the idea that even when people are doing the thing they do best - trying - they still can't do it in a way that feels natural. "trying" as an action also feels like less of an accomplishment compared to the other actions, further playing into the idea of inferiority.

in terms of literary devices, there's not much else to say about the poem which i think is the best thing about it. its sole purpose is to play with the rhyming and word use and then throw it back in your face but it's used so well that you really don't need anything else.

[inkwell-chronicles]

9 Traditional Forms of Poetry:

Sonnet- 14 lines, written in iambic pentameter (a meter with five pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables per line), with the rhyme scheme ABAB (Also known as Shakespearean)

Haiku- traditional Japanese form with 3 lines and a common syllable pattern of 5-7-5. It often focuses on nature. (You can also do patterns of 7-5-7 or 3-5-3)

Villanelle- 19 lines with five three-lined verses (ABA) followed by a four-line stanza (ABAA).

Limerick- a humorous five-line poem with a rhyme scheme of AABBA and a specific rhythm.

Ballad- A narrative poem with song-like qualities, usually written in four-line stanzas with a rhyme scheme. (like ABAB or ABCB)

 Ode- a formal, often ceremonious lyric poem that addresses or celebrates a person, place, thing, or idea. It typically follows a specific structure.

Elegy- a reflective poem that grieves the loss of someone or something.

Sestina- a complex form with six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three-line conclusion stanza.

Pantoum- composed of quatrains where the second and fourth lines of each stanza become the first and third lines of the next stanza.

There are more but this is all for now!

[hydrogenperfoxide]

So in Anne with an E, in episode 4 towards the end (4:17 left on netflix) there's a shot of Marilla reading from the book of Psalms, specifically 78.

What jumped out at me is that each verse has been turned into a quatrain (four lines) with a ABCB rhyme scheme. It's Ballad Stanzas!

So being the Jewish nerd that I am, I had to know 1) how Robert Alter and JPS translated the psalm and 2) what the heck translation this was (obv an xtian one).

It turns out that it's The Psalms of David in Metre aka The Scottish Psalter of 1650

For quick comparison Alter's first two verses, then JPS 1985, then the first two stanza from the 1650 Robert Alter 1 Hearken, my people, to my teaching. Lend your ear to the sayings of my mouth. 2 Let me open my mouth in a rhapsody, let me voice the verses of old, JPS 1985 1 Give ear, my people, to my teaching, turn your ear to what I say. 2 I will expound a theme, hold forth on the lessons of the past, Scottish Psalter 1650 1 Attend, my people, to my law; thereto give thou an ear; The words that from my mouth proceed attentively do hear.

2 My mouth shall speak a parable, and sayings dark of old; The same which we have heard and known, and us our fathers told.

But extra fun thing: this Scottish Psalter 1650 Psalm 78 is in Common Meter (specifically 8, 6, 8, 6). Which means you can sing this over all sorts of tunes! AZMON (the tune that Wesley's O for a Thousand Tongues uses), a number of other hymn tunes i'm sure, but ALSO: Gilligans Isle (repeating the last line), The House of the Rising Sun, and THE POKEMON THEME (verses)

[cosmosgroundhogday]

Noel's Lament, a ballad?? Less likely than you think

I'm back on my bullshit so let's go.

So, we all know about how Noel's Lament isn't actually a lament and is in fact a ballad, and that Ballad of Jane Doe isn't a ballad and is in fact a lament. All this is because lament's are used for mourning and Noel is mourning his could've-been slutty French life, and ballad's are for telling a story and Jane just wants a story of her own she can tell.

We all know that, that's old news. But what if I were to tell you that Noel's Lament isn't entirely a ballad? We'd expect Noel to perform an untraditional ballad that maybe doesn't follow all of the conventions of an actual ballad as an amab who wants to be an afab sex worker in France, but it goes further than that.

A ballad is a poem that contains 12 stanzas, each with 4 lines that follows either an ABAB or ABCB rhyme scheme. An ABAB rhyme scheme is used to tell a love story, and an ABCB rhyme scheme is used to tell a story of heartbreak, or domestic crimes, or political propaganda, or loss of faith in religion etc etc. Noel's Lament follows an ABCB rhyme scheme, due to it's negative tone associating with heartbreak and unfaithfulness and whatever else is going on in Noel's fantasy world.

However, Noel's Lament contains 13 stanzas. Now you might be thinking: hang on, but the very last stanza is 2 lines, that barely even counts. If you're going to exclude the 5th line of some verses "I want to be that fucked up girl" from the ballad then you can exclude those two too! Well I would, except stanzas 11 and 12 also don't follow the rules of a ballad. They're each 6 lines long, and follow an AABBCC rhyme scheme. So when you split stanzas 1-10 and stanzas 11-13 separately, you get a 10 line long ballad, followed by a sonnet. A sonnet is 14 lines and often follows an AABB rhyme scheme, and I'd say Noel's AABBCC rhyme scheme is close enough to say it's the same thing.

See where I'm going with this? If Noel's song is a short ballad followed by a sonnet, whatever could that mean? Well as we know, a ballad is used to tell a story. If that story is cut short, whatever could that symbolise? Noel's tragically early death :). But then why does he sing a sonnet? Well sonnet's are used to write about desire, and even though his entire song is about the desire to be a French sex worker, this desire can also relate to the desire to live again :).

Summary: Noel sings a ballad that's suddenly cut short to symbolise how suddenly his life was cut short, and ends his song with a sonnet to symbolise his desire to live again :D

Thank you for putting up with my English Literature brain who over-analysed the structure of a silly little musical song :D

[xeaxeo]

BAWARKL #1 - Forget and Not Slow Down

Bored At Work Analyzing Relient K Lyrics

i'm not an expert so forgive me if i misuse any terminology. in Relient K's Forget and Not Slow Down, the first verse is a quatrain interrupted by couplets

Verse 1: A How many times A Can I push it aside   C Is it time I befriended all the ghosts   C Of all the things that haunt me most B So they leave me alone A Move on with my life   D Be certain the steps of left and right   D Don't fight the direction of upright

"times", "aside", and "life" are all slant rhymes. "alone" is the only unrhymed word, making its usage jarring and the climax of the verse. we hear this in song with the increased length and emphasis on "alone" when sung.

the chorus, what it is we dont know. it's a stanza, and it's got rhyming all over the place

Chorus: I'd rather forget and not slow down Than gather regret for the things I can't change now If I become what I can't accept Resurrect the saint from within the wretch Pour over me and wash my hands of it

every line of the chorus has a word that rhymes or slant rhymes with "forget." in the first half of the chorus, this rhyme occurs in the first half of each line. "if I become" breaks the rhyme scheme, causing tension, which is subsequently resolved by "accept." the rhyme then moves to the end of each line. As the rhyme moves to a later position in each line, so does the singer wish to move past this. the use of "become" as the word that breaks the rhyme scheme is also clever - to become is to change, and that moment changes the rhyming scheme.

in verse 2, the rhyming is more integrated between the quatrain and the couplets.

Verse 2: A It's time to decide B Which is out of my mind   C 'Cause it'll be me unless I put some thoughts   B To rest and leave some thoughts behind A I'll watch the glint in my eye D Shine off the spring in my step   A And it could be blinding   D Depending on the amount of you that I reflect

We do see that "thoughts" is not rhymed with anything, but technically the indented parts are the same line, I've just broken them into two lines for more clarity in the rhyming scheme. Since it is technically in the middle of the line, we don't get the same jarring effect as "alone" did in the first verse. We also see an internal rhyme on either side of "thoughts" - "unless" and "rest", so the effect that this gives is just a different rhythm in the cadence of the verse. if that makes any sense. Aside from "thoughts", all other lines rhyme with at least one other line. There is no jarring, standout word like "alone". The verse flows seamlessly, and really puts the feeling that instead of belaboring our regrets, we are really ready and trying to move past them.

We'll just mention the bridge for a little bit:

Bridge: 'Cause I could spend my life Just trying to sift through What I could've done better But what good do what if's do Oh-oh, oh-oh There's something I should tell you now

So we have a pretty simple ABCB rhyming scheme, if we break it up from a couplet into a quatrain. One of my favorite things about this song is how many times like two words make the rhyme, like "sift trhough" and "if's do". I think that's pretty good stuff. In the last line, "now" is a slant rhyme with "down". Perhaps even "You now" is a slant rhyme with "slow down". Who knows. Either way, the uncompleted rhyme at the end of the bridge primes the listener to want to hear the other half of that rhyme, both linking the bridge to the chorus and adding tension in the transition from the bridge to the chorus.

[frodo-with-glasses]

hello hi yes I just wanted to screech about your "Hand" poem it's AMAZING ABAB RHYME SCHEME ARE YOU KIDDING ME YES. (Also STORE for that one panel/comic of Pippin and the sword! I think you know the one haha) ~meg

HI YES THANK YOU MEG IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT which is why I cheated with ABCB in the third section haha 🤣 I was sat there so long thinking up rhymes for stuff LOL

(I DO know which panel of Pippin and the sword you are talking about, and heck yes, that will definitely be in the store! I’ll put it on the list. :-D)

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[dreamscrape-navigator]

Bonsai

when my mother raised me

she didn't do by touch

the sting of iron shears

were all i knew of love

.

when i needed shelter

i made do in my pot

the forest's out of reach

so pray the storm will stop

.

now she is resentful

and burning at her core

the bonsai that she sowed

is not a sycamore

[meganwasbored]

hey guys i wrote this poem for literature class do we think punctuation is necessary or am i able to just leave it like this

also if you have better ways of wording stuff i won’t be offended i just wanna pass this class

the only rule is that the rhyme scheme has to be ABCB

[jandkwriting]

Our first ever joint book signing is this weekend! I’m sure we have people interested in our book across the globe, so here’s a activity you can do in the comfort of your own home if you can’t make it in person. A poetry prompt!

To become an accredited bard, Kilahym composed an original piece during his final year at the Bard Academy. A favorite form of his is the ballad ( a poem that tells a story off from a four line stanzas and rhyming example ABCB scheme) craft your own ballad and share the result! Feel free to tag us. 

[i-scan-your-poems]

poem for you to scan if youre accepting them? this one's called "the pillars in pairs"

Through the door of golden pine

Down the creaking stairs,

With pale stone streaking granite gold

Of the pillars in pairs.

On the brick-and-mortar path

Near to sunlit mares

Within the light of the shining sun

‘Round the pillars in pairs.

Over hedges rosy-sweet,

By the grazing hares

Across the golden field of grass,

To the pillars in pairs.

T’wards the silver marble men

Near the statue’s hand,

Before the weeping ravens here,

The pairs of pillars stand.

Scansion:

– / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – Through / the door / of gol/den pine – / ◡ – / ◡ – Down / the crea/king stairs, ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – With pale / stone strea/king gra/nite gold ◡ ◡ – / ◡ ◡ – Of the pil/lars in pairs. – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – On / the brick/-and-mor/tar path – / ◡ – / ◡ – Near / to sun/lit mares ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ ◡ – / ◡ – Within / the light / of the shi/ning sun ◡ ◡ – / ◡ ◡ – ‘Round the pil/lars in pairs. – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – O/ver hed/ges ro/sy-sweet, – / ◡ – / ◡ – By / the gra/zing hares ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – Across / the gol/den field / of grass, ◡ ◡ – / ◡ ◡ – To the pil/lars in pairs. – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – T’wards / the sil/ver mar/ble men – / ◡ – / ◡ – Near / the sta/tue’s hand, ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – Before / the wee/ping ra/vens here, ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – The pairs / of pil/lars stand.

Metrical form: Each four-line stanza has the same rhythm, even though each line within the stanza is different: – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – (acephalous iambic tetrameter) – / ◡ – / ◡ – (acephalous iambic trimeter) ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – (iambic tetrameter) ◡ – / ◡ – / ◡ – OR ◡ ◡ – / ◡ ◡ –

The fourth line of the stanza is underlyingly an iambic trimeter. However, in all but the last stanza, this expected line is replaced with an anapestic dimeter: the same number of syllables, but broken into two feet instead of three.

Rhyme scheme: ABCB DBEB FBGB HIJI

[bookwyrminspiration]

Why do you love, why do you lie?

Why do you hide beneath a chilly disguise

I wish I could know how and who you were

Tell me why she means you are not her

I hear voices from the other room

Though every word’s a blur

They may as well be speaking Greek

Though there’s no way to be sure

So every day I wake

Two names are in my head

The face of pride and envy

The face of calm and dread

And every time I see them

I cannot help but see

A way for me to die today

A way for me to leave

I find a way to see them

Whichever way I go

They are a devil on my shoulder

A reminder of my woe

No one tells me I’m irrational

But nonetheless I know it 

The deathly calmness of the mind

Not letting you to show it

I still believe that I am sane

There’s nothing wrong with me!

I am the same as any other

Or can’t we all agree

I’m not the person I once was

Though I still try to shed that skin

No no no, I’m not alive

No no no, I cannot thrive

I must admit my interpretation of this is skewed because I saw S interpreting the poetry he received in a queer way, and now that's in my mind. The rhyme scheme is intriguing in this ABCC for the first and last, and ABCB for all those in the middle? As far as I know there's no name for that kind of scheme, but my poetic knowledge is also limited.

I'm also curious about the shift in focus throughout the poem. We begin with a lot of "you" and switch to "I/me", so what's the purpose? Does the you actually refer to a focus on another character, or is this repetition of what another has said to them? If we're taking the queer reading, perhaps about the questions the speaker has received about their identity. Or perhaps the speaker addressing themselves?

The lines about two names, shedding skin, nothing wrong with me, not the person I once was, etc. are fairly straightforward in a queer reading of this. But the stanza's about hearing voices in another room and finding a way to see "them" are vexing me. Is this meant to paint a picture of the speaker's life? Does the "them" refer to the two faces in the prior line, which presumably refer to the two names? In which case are they seeking out themself in "find a way to see them"? or does that refer to the inevitability of confronting themself, how no matter where they go they Are Someone and they can't get away from their life.

Anyway, my wonderings aside thank you very much for sharing this with me, I am honored to have been one of the blogs to receive your poetry--even if any specific message may be eluding me, though perhaps vagueness was intentional and the point is to take away something personal. Regardless, your poetry is appreciated