General Principles of Intellectual Property: Concepts of Intellectual Proper...
Hip-Hop as Poetry
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12. Heart, We Will Forget Him
By: Emily Dickinson
Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, tonight!
You may forget the warmth she gave,
I will forget the light!
14. The rhyme scheme
is ABCB.
The ryhmes are
tonight and light
(they share the same
vowel and consonant at
the end of the word).
15. PERFECT RHYME
(or true rhyme)
A rhyme in which two or more words
begin with different consonant
sounds, then have identical stressed
vowel sounds. Any other following
sounds are identical.
16. Perfect rhymes do not have
to be spelled thedo not have
Perfect rhymes same way
to be spelled the same way
Examples:
rink, wink
gratitude, latitude
17. What rhymes
perfectly with the
word “wonder”?
blunder
plunder
sunder
thunder
under
Saunter, daughter, computer
are not perfect rhymes for they
don’t have matching vowel
and consonant sounds after
the initial “w”.
18. The Difference Between
Despair
By: Emily Dickinson
T M is Smooth – no
he ind
M
otion
Contented as the E
ye
Upon the F
orehead of a B –
ust
T
hat knows – it cannot see.
21. The Difference Between
Despair
T M is Smooth – no M
he ind
otion
(A)
Contented as the E (B
ye )
Upon the F
orehead of a B – (C)
ust
T
hat knows – it cannot see.
(slanted B
)
22. SLANT RHYME
(partial rhyme, off rhyme,
half rhyme, near rhyme)
A partial or imperfect
rhyme which often uses
assonance or
consonance only.
23. Slant rhymes do not have to be
spelled in different ways.
how, row
lovely/ funny
24. perfect
rhyme
Slant
Rhyme
BROWN
clown, crown, down, drown done, brawn, bone, ruin,
frown, gown, noun, town… bummed, broad, crowed…
INSTANT
fixing, old land, mixed drink,
king’s men, hand stand,
minced meat, Jim said…
TOPIC
tropic, myopic, microscopic…
knocked, real hick, mock pit,
hoped, rotten, some think…
25. If the world of Western Poetics resisted slant
rhyme, the world of Hip-hop embraced it.
The difference, probably, is that Western
Poetry (though an Oral tradition by origin)
had become a written tradition.
The reader of a poem may not understand
that “eye” if pronounced in a certain way,
can rhyme very closely with “see.”
Hip-hop as an oral tradition never had to
worry about how a “reader” might
pronounce a word, it is always up to the
emcee.
26. Memories Live
By: Talib Kweli
Yo it kind of make me think of way back when,
I was a portrait of the artist as a young man,
All those teenage dreams of rappin’
Writin’ rhymes on napkins,
Was really visualization, making this here
actually happen
28. NY State of Mind
By: Nas
I got so many rhymes I don’t think I’m too sane
Life is parallel to Hell but I must maintain,
And be prosperous, though we live dangerous,
Cops could just arrest me, blaming us, we’re held like hostages
29. AIRPLANES
By B.O.B.
Can we pretend that airplanes
In the night sky are like shooting stars?
I could use a wish right now
Wish right now, wish right now
30. “For me, such rhymes as, say,
‘swans/ stones’ or ‘gibe/club’ or
‘south/both’ often sound more beautiful
and interesting than such hard-rhyme
combinations as ‘bones/stones,’ or
‘rub/club’ or south/mouth’”
-Robert Pinsky
(in his introduction to Dante’s Inferno)
31. GROUP ACTIVITY
Performance
Compose a poem on how you can
encourage people to use the English
language. There should be instances
of perfect rhyme and slant rhyme.
Interpret it through a music video.
