write a complex, intricate, highly techical rap verse in the style of eminem. Make it extremely clever, with stunning wordplay, jaw-dropping double entendres, and a complete lack of reaching for rhymes. In fact, come up with the second line of each couplet before you come up with the first line. Use a self-asking prompting style to ask yourself if each couplet is sensible and impactful, rather than simply reaching for a rhyme. 

Use multisyllabic rhymes across 3 or 4 syllables, not just two. Weave rhymes into the beginnings and middles of couplets as well. Utilize complex flows. Scheme about topics, i.e. I get that cake, too late blew out the candles, we're vandals, our slices way too big to handle.

Consider the following text when crafting the rap; 
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"We even get a dopamine hit when we hear rhymes “click.” Particularly rhymes at the end of a line, also known as end rhymes.

But rhymes don’t just turn up randomly. They arrive in a structured pattern.

This pattern of end rhyme in a song is called a rhyme scheme. 

Getting to grips with rhyme schemes will help you avoid rhymes that sound “cheesy” or corny. ” They will help you feel propelled by rhyme rather than choked by it!

 

How does a rhyme scheme work?
person looking upwards, wondering

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of end rhymes. We can keep track of a song’s rhyme scheme using letters from the alphabet.

When two lines end with the same sound, they’re given a letter. So the first rhyme in a song would be A, the second is B, and so on through the alphabet. If the word at the end of a line doesn’t rhyme with any other, it’s given an X.

So how do we create patterns with rhyme?
In song, there are two dominant groups of schemes used. Four-line schemes and six-line schemes.

There are exceptions. But a good place to get a handle on this is to start with those most often used.

 

The Most Popular Four-Line Rhyme Schemes
#1: AABB
An AABB rhyme scheme is made up of four lines. The first two lines are a pair, as are the last two lines.

Each of the pairs has a different rhyme. This type of end rhyme is also referred to as a couplet.

You can see this at work in Simon and Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence.

Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping


The end rhyme of the first pair, or couplet, is friend with again. That’s our A rhyme.

The second couplet also rhymes. But it uses a different sounding rhyme – creeping with sleeping – and that’s the B rhyme.

This scheme also unites each new idea with a couplet. Once the rhyming couplet finishes, a new couplet (and idea) starts. Have another look:

Idea 1 – the A rhyme

Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again

Idea 2 – the B rhyme

Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping

This way of moving your ideas through the song (particularly the verses, IMHO) is called topic movement.

It’s a key reason why rhyme schemes are so well used in song. We hear rather than read the words.

 

#2: ABAB
This very popular scheme has interlocking rhymes. ABAB is also known as alternate rhyme.

Here is how you can write it:

Rhyme the first line with the third.
Rhyme the second line with the fourth, but use a different vowel sound.
A good example is Scarborough Fair. This is a traditional English folk tune made evergreen by Simon and Garfunkel.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Remember me to one who lives there
For once she was a true love of mine


 

#3: AAAA
This scheme has all the lines ending with the same rhyme. It’s also known as monorhyme.

Using this scheme is harder to keep sounding fresh, but it’s great for creating a buildup.

Here’s Sam Smith’s Latch.

You lift my heart up when the rest of me is down
You, you enchant me even when you’re not around
If there are boundaries, I will try to knock them down
I’m latching on, babe, now I know what I have found


 

#4: ABBA
This rarer scheme works as a sandwich. It’s called an enclosed or envelope rhyme.

You rhyme the first line with the last one. Then the two lines between them rhyme with each other, but the rhyme sounds different.

Here’s James Taylor’s Sweet Baby James.

There is a young cowboy, he lives on the range
His horse and his cattle are his only companions
He works in the saddle and he sleeps in the canyons
Waiting for summer his pastures to change


 

#5: AAAB
Everything rhymes except for the very last line in the verse. Often, this last line has a completely different amount of syllables as the three lines before it.

Here’s Coldplay with the verse scheme from Fix You.

When you try your best but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse

When the tears come streaming down your face
‘Cause you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
What could be worse?


The next three schemes (well, four really) have more relative freedom and flexibility. They mix rhyming lines (A) and non-rhyming lines (X).

The first one is the most popular.

 

#6: XAXA
In XAXA, you have two lines that do not rhyme with others and two that do.

Make sure that lines 1 and 3 do not rhyme with each other or with any other line
Line 2 and line 4 do rhyme with each other.
This scheme’s less predictable, because it has two lines that don’t rhyme with anything.

But it allows the potential for a more natural, conversational way of writing. That makes it a real favorite with contemporary songwriters.

Like The Police, with Everything Little Thing She Does Is Magic.

I resolved to call her up
A thousand times a day
Ask her if she’ll marry me
In some old-fashioned way"
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