end rhyme

With all that repetition at the beginning of lines, it’s easy to overlook what’s missing from the end: rhyme.

In an art form in which end rhyme is the rule, finding a way to deliver your verse without your listeners’ missing the rhyme might be the greatest poetic flex of all.

Earlier on the album, “Real Thing” contains the lyrics “I come from a land of slaves/ Let’s go Redskins, let’s go Braves,” which conflates a series of intensive racial issues in America into a neat, flippant phrase that seems to value end rhyme over its own endgame.

Queen only used do/you as an end rhyme once in its 15 albums, and there is no single rhyme that Queen used in more than five different songs.

Traditional Arabic poetry, he explained, was usually written in one of 16 meters, in balanced lines split by a caesura, and frequently employing a single end rhyme for an entire poem.