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Thread #163899   Message #3915265
Posted By: GUEST,Jerry
05-Apr-18 - 03:47 AM
Thread Name: perfect lyrics
Subject: RE: perfect lyrics
Drink to Me Only also has two other subtle rhyming couplets within, albeit one being a consonant rhyme. More importantly, for songs anyway, the whole thing scans simply, with largely alternate long and short syllables in alternately equal length lines, which so many writers now don’t seem to bother with or understand. I don’t know why people say I’m old fashioned.