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• In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Night, Fire, December

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.145

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• My parents were hippies, and the story is that they went through a dictionary looking for a beautiful word to name me. They nearly called me Banyan, but flipped a few pages on and reached "China," thankfully. The other reason they liked it is that "china" is Cockney rhyming slang for "mate." People say "my old china," meaning "my old mate," because "china plate" rhymes with "mate.

  China Mieville

  Beautiful, Hippie, Names

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• When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic.

  Rakim

  Reading, Albums, Today

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Views, Buckets, Care

  Song: I Don't Know What It Is, Album: Want One, 2003

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• I know Busta Rhymes for about a year now and we did a song together and we got an album together which is called "Godzilla vs. King Kong", which is going to be me and Busta. That was really the first time we rocked together on stage.

  Bone Crusher

  Song, Kings, Years

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• I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Lines, Rhyming

  "Harp's Delight - An interview with Joanna Newsom". Interview with Michael Cramer, www.dustedmagazine.com.

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• Everybody has they're own audience you know what I'm saying. I write rhymes and make music for the people that I fell wanna hear my music. They write rhymes and make music for the people they feel wanna hear they're music.

  Bun B

  Writing, People, Feels

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• Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Simple, May, Youth

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.216

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• 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.

  James Fenton

  Challenges, Lines, Firsts

  "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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• I still don't know how to express the really delicate personal stuff. People think that Plastic Ono is very personal, but there are some subtleties of emotions which I cannot seem to express in pop music, and it frustrates me. Maybe that's why I still search for other ways of expressing myself. Song writing is a limiting experience in some ways - writing down words that have to rhyme.

  John Lennon

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme

  Paul Muldoon

  Use, Television, Rhyming

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• I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

  Paul Muldoon

  Believe, Rhyming, Language

  Interview with John Redmond, www.poetrymagazines.org.uk. November 2, 1995.

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• But you can't focus on things that matter if all you've been is asleep for forty years. Funny how sleep rhymes with sheep. You know.

  Charlie Sheen

  Funny, Sleep, Sheep

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• I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

  Ice T

  Writing, Track, Locks

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• A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.

  Ice T

  Rap, Kids, Mastery

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• My father's a preacher, my mother's a teacher, thus... I rhyme.

  Saul Williams

  Mother, Teacher, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval Carmina Burana - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.

  James Fenton

  Latin, Age, Doe

  "It ain't necessarily so" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2002.

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• I love beats that are hardcore, dirty and raw.
  I love takin niggas burners when they scared to draw.
  I love plottin on my enemies, I love to attack.
  I love beatin down niggas when they rhymes is wack!

  Bumpy Knuckles

  Rap, Dirty, Love Is

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  It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy.

  Snoop Dogg

  Rap, Hair, Hip Hop

  Song: Santa Claus Goes Straight to the Ghetto, 1996

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• It excites me when a person puts their whole self in a song or rhyme, or instrument. It fills me.

  Jill Scott

  Song, Self, Instruments

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• I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

  Jill Scott

  Years, May, Rhyming

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• People don't ask Jay-Z to take his shirt off when he rhymes.

  Janelle Monae

  People, Shirts, Shirt Off

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• "Love" is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like "move". The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as "love" and as "guv" - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

  James Fenton

  Moving, Love Is, Perfect

  "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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• My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

  James Fenton

  War, Simple, Feelings

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• The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: "lane" rhymes with "pain", but it also rhymes with "urbane" since the last syllable of "urbane" is stressed. "Lane" does not rhyme with "methane".

  James Fenton

  Pain, Stressed, Doe

  "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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