An off-centered rhyme is an
internal
Internal may refer to:
*Internality as a concept in behavioural economics
*Neijia, internal styles of Chinese martial arts
*Neigong or "internal skills", a type of exercise in meditation associated with Daoism
*''Internal (album)'' by Safia, 2016
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rhyme scheme
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.
An example of the ABAB r ...
characterized by placing
rhyming
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually, the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of perfect rhyming is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic ...
words or
syllables in unexpected places in a given line. This is sometimes called a misplaced-rhyme scheme or a spoken-word rhyme style. Here is an example from the
hip-hop group
De La Soul:
Playin' ''wait up'', with the ''data'' servin' your ears
with infor''mation'' due to confir''mation'' of the ''nation's'' most
wicked ''ways'' of livin', like them glassy eyed ''beans''
Inhale to smoke the ''fiends'', while bangin' a ''tape''
''Rated'' at the high point of the ''mass''
Rippin' MC's at the top of a ''class'', oc''cas''ionally
rippin' some sucker's ''face'', or some suckable ''ass'' from a ''girl''
It's a big brother beat for the wide wide ''world'' mphasis added/poem>
This is a common rhyme scheme found in the
spoken word
Spoken word refers to an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a late 20th century continuation of an ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetics of ...
form of
poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
and can also be found in hip-hop to a lesser degree.
Rhyme
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