I feel like it’s been a long time since I’ve been here. Just been too busy and stressed at work to want to do too much of anything when I get home, but think I’m starting to get a grip on it now. I have lots of topics to write about, but this one jumped out at me today:
Forced Rhymes
What is a forced rhyme? Is it when you say something in a way you wouldn’t usually say it, just to make a rhyme? It kind of sounds unnatural. I thought of it because I was listening to the song Betty Davis Eyes, and this is what I heard, that didn’t sound natural at all:
What it takes to make a pro blush
Doesn’t that just sound…not right?
The problem here for me is that I think it’s not SUPPOSED to sound unnatural. But the emphasis is on all the wrong words. If you were talking, you wouldn’t say this sentence this way. Therefore, this just doesn’t work for me.
Now, in comparison, there is this great line in the song I Hear the Bells by Mike Dougherty where he MAKES UP a word, just to get a rhyme:
Well, I have snost and lost.
I love that! Sure it’s forced. But it’s so obviously forced it’s almost comical. No, wait. It IS comical. And that’s what makes it so great.
Well, if I keep going like this, I’m going to start talking about Al Yankovic, and that’s another journal entry altogether!
Oh, and one thing, btw: the countdown is now at 10 days till the first Alabama game. Woo hoo! 🙂
