As a matter of fact, if the Shaper’s vision of goodness and peace was a part of himself, not idle rhymes, then no one understood him at all, not even Hrothgar. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a kind of poem the Japanese write. It never rhymes, but it always has seventeen syllables.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

For young children, the rhyme is magical as they first encounter the powerful sound of rhyming words. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I said the rhymes but wasn’t really paying attention. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

In Sacramento, the blue Easter morning seemed always to rhyme with the gospel account of the three Marys wending their way through a garden to discover an empty tomb. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Repeat until the rhyme becomes embodied, and flows freely. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There's no one from the hood who'll spread a rumor about me getting on the mic to spit some corny rhyme about love or the hood or my sisters. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Starting at the beginning of the alphabet, Lina went through all the words that rhymed with fork. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No offense, but would you mind checking again? I’m not sure I can trust the literacy of someone who tries to rhyme ‘north’ with ‘worth.’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Considering how you’ve written some of the best rhymes I’ve ever heard in my life, I bet it is,” he says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“See what I did there? That rhymed. Cage. Stage. I’m extremely talented, aren’t I?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

‘That sounds like a bit of old Bilbo’s rhyming,’ said Pippin. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The class, preferring verse that rhymed at the end of lines, was silent, not knowing what to think of Gloria’s poem. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Pronunciation rhymes with renunciation,” said Sister Mary Ignatius. prophecy/prophesy. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to start up what I hoped would be a happier rhyme. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I needed another word that rhymed with gooey, chewy, and screwy,” I explained. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kate hesitated, trying to think of an indignant response that rhymed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We played silly games, sang nonsense rhymes—and pretended that, at least for those few hours, there was no Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Each letter of the alphabet has a rhyme about a little kid meeting some bizarre end. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Guyard the Green, who fancied himself a singer, diddled a harp and gave them a verse about tying lions' tails in knots, parts of which rhymed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Duny laughed and shouted it out again, the rhyme that gave him power over the goats. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There! How’s that? Now will you stay, since it rhymed and all?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The singer had to find a rhyme for craven, so ...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I let Aunt Pooh hear some rhymes I wrote, she gets so hype over them that she tells me to rap them for her friends. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

An even more challenging and creative way to use body percussion is to create onomatopoeia in accordance with the lyrics, mimicking or relating to the sounds presented in the rhyme. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He remembered the rhyme that Tom had taught them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Without books in the peach stand, I often passed the time making up poems, but that slow afternoon I didn’t have the patience for rhyming words. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blowing off steam, throwing rhymes in the alley. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Can be made to rhyme with a lot of things. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nicknamed after a nursery rhyme, she had yet to shed a childhood endearment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“We know why. Starts with B, rhymes with ‘when,’ as in when are you going to start working on the Shumaker files?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Once we caught a wounded blackbird by throwing a blanket over it and figured we could make a blackbird pie, like in the nursery rhyme. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He yelled the rhyme aloud, and the goats came to him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She needed to focus on something other than dances and June and words that rhymed with brush. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It was impossible to change the line. The rhyme was ‘rod.’ 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And the voices wailed, Fire, fire, run, run, like a tragic nursery rhyme, a dozen voices, high, low, like children dying in a forest, alone, alone. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The opportunities for rhyming were too gruesome to consider. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In fact the same dash occurs three times throughout the rhyme: here, here and here.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t a poem. It just happened to rhyme.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

One of the good ones, where all the bad words rhyme. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Beat Box and Boom Box’s real names rhymed. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the rhymes made sense, sometimes they didn’t. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Start by patsching on your lap, L R L R L R while speaking the rhyme. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Whenever the newscaster mentioned a country with a particularly musical name, he’d repeat it or make a rhyme of it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Inside the gatehouse study the two companions were once more at work, trying to break the code of the Great Hall rhyme. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She’d click her invisible fingers, reciting rhymes Peachy taught her when she was very little. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Below are a few of the rhymes and songs particularly good for newborns and toddlers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The substituted word or phrase can be part of the rhyme or not. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Sarah changed the words of the pig lullaby so that they rhymed, and every night she sang it to little Stanley. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I write down poems I like. I’m not some kinda weird rhyming genius like you.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

There was no rhyme or reason to whether we lived or died. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I see. I think it’s best that I assigned you a story to write over the summer and not a poem. Still, I know a good rhyme can calm the soul.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The soul must then recite a counting rhyme to tally his fingers, satisfying the ferryman. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

All night long, it seemed, his mother had sat on his bed in the dark, singing nursery rhymes, telling him stories, and as long as her dear voice was there, he knew he was safe. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To prepare for the improvisation part of this rhyme, use rhythm cards for several weeks prior. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Petra, embarrassed by her accidental rhyme, looked sideways at Calder to see if he had noticed. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I giggle at my little rhyme as he snarls at me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Not that again. Last time Apollo cursed a cabin, it took a week for the rhyming couplets to wear off” I shuddered. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We were a noisy procession, with horns and cowbells and excited voices chanting rhyming cheers. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But since Daddy died four months ago, nothing fits and nothing rhymes, no matter how hard I try to make it. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I wrote a poem with her name in the card, which was really hard because there aren’t many good words that rhyme with Maylene. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to learn languages when the sounds rhyme. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Izzy wrapped up with a triumphant and brutal verse rhyming spastic, sarcastic, and less than fantastic, and the crowd erupted in thunderous applause. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A group of Amity girls in yellow and red sit in a circle on the cafeteria floor, playing some kind of hand-slapping game involving a rhyming song. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He jiggles his marker in his fingers and mumbles words that rhyme with “middle,” and somehow that leads him to bring his pen down on Vienna. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The actions for this rhyme are indicative of life and culture in India, and include motions that are both familiar and unfamiliar to children’s game songs in the U.S. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She needs no rhyme and no reason, neither. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The rhymes sound so pretty, I’m sure the meaning is too. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Owe rhymes with low, we learned, for a reason. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to go back and find a new rhyme for ‘Andy’!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

"Wait a minute—there's something else here. Just a few lines. Strange. I think it's a rhyme." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sluggers turned as a unit to look toward the source of the noise, but Jesse hadn’t noticed and was still talking about memory, this time in rhyming couplets. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been entertaining everyone with her perverse rhymes since the fourth grade. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

End precisely on the last beat of the rhyme and freeze! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In preparation for longer, narrative stories in which sound effects and music are incorporated, there are many children’s rhymes that tell stories and incorporate fun sounds. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“The rhyme says, ‘from o’er the threshold seek and you will see.’ Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Has it ever occurred to you,” he said, “that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Yeah, that's it, rap sheets, which is such a dumb name because it makes me think of rap music, like maybe a rap sheet is what rappers write their rhymes down on. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Valmiki raised an eyebrow, as if to say You’re stretching the definition of rhyme, but then, you are on an urgent deadline…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For example, Monique rhymes with streak, and she had a blond streak in her dark hair. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was the old nursery rhyme that she remembered from her childhood days. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I should be used to this, as much as I let him and Malik hear rhymes that I wrote, but I’m always afraid to show people who know me that other side of me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My name is Reek, it rhymes with bleak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He glanced up at the framed nursery rhyme over the mantelpiece. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

There were records and info sheets full of scratched-out numbers and random words that didn’t seem to have any rhyme or reason. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And it doesn’t even rhyme very well, either, but some of those words just don’t have good rhyming matches, anyway. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The rhyme itself implies that there is an inherent dialogue between the two mothers. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Below her, her great-uncle whispers nursery rhymes to himself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d been teasing old stories and rhymes from townsfolk for over a year wherever we stopped to play. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For many hours, balancing on the edge of the surprises of a war with no future, in rhymed verse he resolved his experience on the shores of death. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It would be nice to say that I smiled and spoke of pleasant things in carefully metered rhyming couplets, like Prince Gallant from some faerie story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He would never dare to consider himself a poet, because he wasn’t anything like that; he just loved rhymes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“For some, their rhymes would make them smile; others would cry. But eventually they would all fall asleep.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Diary, how could a word that rhymes with "dancer" be so bad? Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“No rhyme or reason to how the state does its business.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

As she walked against the flow of morning traffic, she ran through the nursery rhymes she remembered. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got nothing,” she said, before remembering it was supposed to be a rhyme and adding, “too. How ’bout taking Boo?” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Movement and rhymes build cognitive abilities in terms of sequencing physical and linguistic activity, imitation, and internalization. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She knew the rhymes they sang, but no one would ask her to join. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Two archers ran by, chased by an angry Ares kid who was yelling in poetry: “Curse me, eh? I’ll make you pay! / I don’t want to rhyme all day!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, we spent many a walking hour singing, making up rhymes, playing kick the can. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The solution for English speakers: pronounce it to rhyme with “books.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You were right about Sidana. That rhyming does get irritating real quick." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

That doesn’t sound complete; it needs a word to rhyme with house.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I must think of a way to commit it to memory, a rhyme or something. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

This time I did my rhyme in a quiet voice. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without my willing it, a rhyme formed in my head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She remembered that Emily Dickinson’s poems hardly ever rhymed. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That rhymed too, but what kind of instructions were those? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, the sweet sound of Mama’s nursery rhyme began to sing in my head. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Also it was hard to get a word for the third line to rhyme with what. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“My name is Reek. It rhymes with leek.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

High-school students, among them former classmates of Nancy and Kenyon Clutter, chanted cheerleader rhymes, bubbled bubble gum, gobbled hot dogs and soda pop. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time signature 6/8 is very common for children’s rhymes and songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Dylan seemed embarrassed but let the rhymes fly anyway. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Park planned to choose a poem that rhymed, so it would be easier to memorize. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He had dragged out from the comers of his memory some more fragments of forgotten rhymes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, we get together and practice our rhymes,” Bernard says. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Adding movement helps reinforce the linguistic content of the rhyme or song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We circled and sang a school yard rhyme: When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He recited the Crooked Man nursery rhyme, and grinned. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I like the way her name makes a little rhyme. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

One evening as I was building up my parent’s cookfire, my mother caught me chanting a rhyme I had heard the day before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You 're Reek, just Reek, it rhymes with freak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“B is for Basil, assaulted by bears,” I reply, continuing the morbid rhyme we memorized off the poster on my bedroom wall. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It popped up at the most inconvenient times, effervesced in all my rhymes. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If there were any rhyme or reason to the place, it was lost on me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He would have felt pretty silly reciting nursery rhymes at Camp Green Lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“No, I only want these clothes. Reek’s clothes. I’m Reek, it rhymes with peek.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It needs a rhyme with something like ‘pecan pie,’” Vonetta said. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They were to be identified by the maps they might sometimes consult and, on questioning, by their too-perfect English and their ignorance of common nursery rhymes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Lelia recognizes this, too, and they all gallop on broomsticks while they recite an old nursery rhyme. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take turns around the circle alternating the rhyme with two new “mothers” in the center battling it out through rhythm, movement, and improvisation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Was it possible to rhyme blossom with bosom? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Several children saw the funny side of the rhyme and laughed. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Almost at random he said: “Did you ever happen to hear an old rhyme that begins Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement’s?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It started with a C and rhymed with brush, and whenever it popped into her head, June’s face was right there next to it. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He will blurt it out in so many rhymes and alliterations, everyone will know. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Each time I moved, I cheered myself with a little rhyme: Heigh-ho! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Also, she doubted he knew any nursery rhymes. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew a story or two about them, and every child at one point has sung the silly rhyme about their signs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But now there seemed to be no rhyme or reason to when the sanitation crews removed bodies. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

"My dear Joe," John began, but put on the spot, he was blocked for a rhyme. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“What was that rhyme? Where did you learn it?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are seven of them, haikus mostly but rhyming ones, too. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Reek, my name is Reek it rhymes with weak Reek bent to his task. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I”—she pointed to herself—"rhymes with the sky!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They include some very familiar nursery rhymes and action games appropriate for this age group. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

We all tried to choose a name that would sound good with our Dinka name, or rhyme with it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first thought is the rhyme from my morbid poster. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

But I read them for reasons which, I imagine, are similar to those that make children play with meaningless rhyme. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “One two three” rhyme, for example, uses all four maintypes of body percussion—stamping, clapping, patsching, and snapping—but not all of the types of body percussion need to be incorporated. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Ophelia, you read much nonsense. What dung-covered lad can tell his ABCs, let alone rhyme a sonnet and count all its feet?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Reek, my name is Reek, it rhymes with cheek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The natural rhythms inherent in rhyming can become the basis for exploration, improvisation, vocalizations, and instrumental creativity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He snuck a little rhyme in there too. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For newborns and very young children, speaking a rhyme and wiggling toes connects sound to a pleasurable and intimate act, as well as introducing the idea of rhythm and phrasing to newborns and young children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

If he had found out Fezzik was making rhymes, he would have laughed and then found new ways to make Fezzik suffer. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Or did she see something else—something that started with a C and rhymed with brush? Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And while they argued if Carver rhymed with larva, I saw pictures of my Temptations-whistling, dimpled, smiling father sitting in the RKO movie theater munching on popcorn with his arm around Miss Marva Hendrix’s shoulders. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She corrected him, saying that “Mou” rhymed with “toe,” but he shook his head and said, “I’ll just call you Mouse.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Strange and mysterious and to make up rhymes, sing songs, tell fortunes. He said I looked startled by life, Chaya. Do you think so?” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and concentrated while the children, inexhaustible in their willingness to repeat a rhythmic, rhyming action game, performed the round over and over again. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The master and his unlikely pupil started with simple rhymes and short passages from popular British versifiers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As a tyke the rhyming sounds had charmed her out of the boredom she often felt during the interminable Song. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Like Emily Dickinson, I ain’t afraid of slant rhyme / And that’s the end of this verse; emcee’s out on a high.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he taught them a rhyme to sing, if they should by ill-luck fall into any danger or difficulty the next day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t make those words fit no matter how hard we tried, but that didn’t stop us from squeezing, dropping, and rhyming the words. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Reek, my lord. Your man. I’m Reek, it rhymes with sneak.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You thought you could beat me in a battle, rhyming like that?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Your flow was absolutely ridiculous. I’m still in awe that you came up with that rhyme scheme on the spot. You should’ve won, hands down.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The clatter of the stick provided a nice rhythm for the rhyme running in my head. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was memorable, as most child rhymes are. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Long before the year was up, Janie noticed that her husband had stopped talking in rhymes to her. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She would never have been able to come up with a rhyme. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But just ’cause you can make some words rhyme doesn’t make poetry good. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it rhymes with anything because it’s a word I never thought could be used when it comes to me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Remember the rhyme about mice I taught you when you were little?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The swing moved back and forth, creaking on its rusted chain, and it was like that old nursery rhyme, Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating his Christmas pie. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She can’t stop his words, which come in rhymes sometimes or jumbled together like twisted yarn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At his third meeting with the Savage, Helmholtz recited his rhymes on Solitude. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get ready to fire my rhyme line at her. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Streets and alleys zigzagged with no rhyme or reason through quilts of neighborhoods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a fine poem but a deceitful one: We do indeed remember Shakespeare’s powerful rhyme, but what do we remember about the person it commemorates? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I asked, unable to find any rhyme or reason to the titles. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were like nameless men in a scary nursery rhyme—the butcher, the iceman, and the barber—until Lettie identified them as Mr. Simon, Mr. Pickerton, and Mr. Cooper. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A good way to internalize the rhythm is to by first learning the rhyme, then adding the body percussion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I think of Candor’s rhyming song, which calls us the crudest faction. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Flow is the rhythm of the rhymes, and every word, every syllable, affects it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Walk to the beat while saying the rhyme. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A lot of words rhyme with that if I deliver them right. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was no rhyme or reason to it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Instead of wildly scribbled rhymes all over a piece of notebook paper like I’d usually have, Dee has typed up an entire song. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I can rhyme while I run; I’m that slick.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I rhymed! Did you hear that? I’m a poet and didn’t know it, although my shoes kind of show it.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I like making words fit together like puzzle pieces, and coming up with the perfect rhyme. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The few days inside had done her well, and she sang under her breath and into the top of her sweater, a nursery rhyme about a fiddle and a cat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Let’s concentrate on the first part of the riddle. What rhymes with ‘dart and crackerjacks’?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The scattered noises of gossip and hip-hop rhymes battle it out against the melody Mrs. Waltons playing on the piano. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The words went round in my head like a scary nursery rhyme, echoing into infinity. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he could never recall more than a few lines of any one rhyme. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Now, what rhymes with Mary? I can’t use contrary’ because that has been done before and one must be original. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Do you realize that there are only twelve rhymes to ‘rod’ in the entire language? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Margot had trouble getting the part about food to rhyme, so I’m leaving it out. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There was something about making the person with the head injury speak a favorite nursery rhyme so that speech patterns—slurring, et cetera—could be evaluated. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

And of course that was the last line of the rhyme. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The Wart was called the Wart because it more or less rhymed with Art, which was short for his real name. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s earned his rest, all right,” he breathed. p in Massachusetts, Pollard greeted reporters with a rhyme: “The weather was clear, the track fast War Admiral broke first and finished last.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an attack on all the accepted verities as was healthful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t rhyme, but Ivy knew not all poems did. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Anything you said out loud, he rhymed it inside. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, my lord... usually prophecies are unclear. They’re wrapped in riddles. They rhyme, and...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I was in school, we had to memorize this little rhyme: Use i before e, except after c, Or when sounded like a, As in neighbor and weigh. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it “Stupid, stupid, go and wait for Vizzini with Cupid”? That rhymed, but where was the Cupid? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was waiting for me to return and decided to listen to the rappers kick some fresh rhymes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Orff method makes use of nursery rhymes, folktales, folksongs, folkdances, and authentic, classical compositions—all music and literature of primary importance and quality. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Narrative Movements: It is easy to add narrative movements to most children’s rhymes as these poems often tell some type of story. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Inigo had even made a rhyme up for him so he wouldn’t forget, and now, even with that, he was so stupid he had forgotten. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of words can rhyme with that if delivered a certain way. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He goes on at length about the mastery of it, and says he gathered there is no rhyme or reason to its itinerary, but expresses his hope that it will come to Germany. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She suspected he made up many of them; the rhymes were crooked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I realized I’d rhymed myself into a corner with orange when my stick came to a gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"You've heard the nursery rhyme about the little old lady who lived in a shoe?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Children said she was carried in by dolphins and they made games of it, and rhymes, but all of that was just tale-spinning and fun, and no one took it to be true. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s okay. The Colonel can’t drop beats, either. Just try and rhyme a little and then send it over to me.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She spoke the rhyme as if it were a short poem. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Dad stopped his rhyming, not because Momma told him to, but because I bet he ran out of stupid poems. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I turn it in, it occurs to me that the rhyme and the rhythm of my poem really, really suck. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The mother’s voice is soft as she recites the rhyming lines. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Ares camper tried to stab him and cuss him out in rhyming couplets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dr. Gupta gives the boy a handsome illustrated copy of Mother Goose rhymes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The prohibition has been drilled into children for so long that they have made it into a jump-rope rhyme: Don’t say ain’t or your mother will faint. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Note that the rhyme itself is not from West Africa, but it is the process of aural transmission itself that is one of the main goals of the lesson. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

But I insisted, and so the thumping twangy bass noise resumed, and over it, a light baritone chanting in Caribbean patois to the rhythms of a nursery rhyme, or a playground skipping-rope jingle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The word quart is supposed to be pronounced like quart, but with a ^ at the end instead of a t, but is usually pronounced to rhyme with lar\\. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the glass paperweight or Mr. Charrington’s half-remembered rhymes, it belonged to the vanished, romantic past, the olden time as he liked to call it in his secret thoughts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know slant rhyme from regular rhyme, but I was suitably impressed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

They wrinkle their brows as they struggle to rhyme “wombat.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It rhymes with shield and is spelled like it too. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children’s repertoires include countless game-songs and rhymes for play, jump rope, etc., that have been passed down and modified for generations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Nobody can resist this style of music, with its hypnotizing beats and poetic rhymes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I took the Bible, pencil, paper, and a rhyming dictionary and tried to write verses for hymns. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the body percussion is too complex, simply say the rhyme or clap to the rhyme. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This latest discovery of a new and baffling rhyme concerning moonlight, the north and an unknown threshold nagged at his brain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure imagines him hunched on the davenport, mumbling children’s rhymes and watching ghosts shuttle through the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There is no right or wrong way to add body percussion to enhance the rhyme; it is all in the ear of the beholder! Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Playing the dozens, rapping and rhyming to see who’ll back down first. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The words have strung themselves together into rhymes and into a flow, and I let it all come tumbling out. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Any rhyme can be made more complex by adding a body percussion pattern or simple instrument pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

One rhymes with canal, one with anal, and one with an awl. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep in mind that almost any nursery rhyme can be used for these activities, as long as they have a steady beat, which luckily most of them do. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He was seldom moved to make song or rhyme; even in Rivendell he had listened and had not sung himself, though his memory was stored with many things that others had made before him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Plus I needed a way to make it rhyme. So do you have a guess?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because of my habit of walking around telling my favourite stories to anyone who cared to listen, word soon got around the class that I knew nursery rhymes and stories teachers didn’t know. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown, thought Tristran to himself, remembering the old nursery rhyme. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Hollyhock and tansy; madder and bedstraw . . .” But they fell into no comfortable rhythm and did not rhyme. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, my friends grumbled because we had to change a lot of the feminine endings, and so the rhymes all went to pot. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she went back to her call, this time adding a rhyme. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Reek, my name is Reek, it rhymes with weak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he began in a sing-song manner to rhyme about each one in turn. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lara rhymed quietly and nervously—and with even more flagrant disregard for the beat than me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“How did you guess ‘nursery rhyme’ from this?” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Silly songs and rhymes with interesting onomatopoeic sounds and simple, repetitive words are also highly useful, such as “Galumph Went the Little Green Frog” and “Jelly in a Bowl.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Rhythm: the rhyme is very simple with 8 beats in each line. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Narrative motions not only bring the story to life, but also significantly help children to remember the words to a rhyme or song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Because he knew something: even though outside he looked twenty, and his mustache was already coming along nicely, inside he was still this nine-year-old who liked rhyming things. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Reek, Reek, it rhymes with meek “... bad and ...” “There’s blood on your mouth,” Ramsay observed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m the stupidest fellow that was ever born; you know that. I couldn’t remember to come back here even after you made up that special lovely rhyme for me.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He has a metrically organised rhythmic structure, able to support the shape of the words of a poem, successfully allowing important stress syllables or rhymes to fall at the appropriate point in the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

This rhyme and song is a good example of a children’s game song, which has many, many parts to it. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Let’s take a simple playground rhyme as our material to teach West African musical and cultural values. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I was not comforted by my rhyme, and feeling a little too out in the open, I veered off the path and into the hedge for some cover. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Examples of Hello rhymes and songs might include “Hi There, Hello There.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Rat Kiley made up a rhyme that caught on, and we'd all be chanting it together: Step out of line, hit a mine; follow the dink, you're in the pink. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes center stage, clears his throat, and smoothly launches into his rhyme. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to write poetry, but there was a Spanish bookseller with a real genius for rhyme from whom I ordered poems and songs—anything whose raw material was paper and ink. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had laughed in the midst of all his cares when Sam trotted out the old fireside rhyme of Oliphaunt, and the laugh had released him from hesitation. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My mother made rhymes to help me remember the more nonsensical elements of etiquette. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then the witch spoke to Duny in a tongue he did not understand, and made him say with her certain rhymes and words until the enchantment came on him and held him still. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark he made up rhymes and sang songs, and one of the reasons she hated his new American music was that he sang it exclusively to himself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

West African music also integrates literature, movement, body percussion, rhyme, and music, so the Orff approach is probably the most applicable teaching method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

They put bits of themselves into his characters, grafting their faces onto the figures in his rhymes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He sighed as he pictured the tattered nursery rhyme book in the box by Boots’s crib at home. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She rhymed and played with her words like she played with peas, butterbeans, and mashed potatoes at the table. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On the train the next day, Joe didn’t make many speeches with rhymes to her, but he bought her the best things the butcher had, like apples and a glass lantern full of candies. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“What do you think will happen, Ben? What? The sky will fall, like in that silly rhyme?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he and Aaron sat in our room all day long, making up rhymes and slapping each other five when something came off sounding right. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

At first she invented rhymes about the tundra and sang them to tunes she had learned at school. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she truly explained her worries about the changing sky, the snake—if she told him that she feared she’d broken the island...that the sky might actually fall, like in the rhyme? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Fear,” Fezzik said, the rhyme out before he could stop it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The specta­tors’ “OH!” rhymed with each flinging of the stone, and that went on for a while. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reprinted on the first page of Anorak's Almanac were the four rhyming lines of verse Halliday had recited in the Invitation video. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The playground was empty except for us and the dirt we churned up with our rhyming. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“A mausoleum,” said Malcolm, who had seen the word but never heard it, and pronounced it to rhyme with linoleum. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Once they are walking to a steady beat and stopping precisely on the last beat, have children drop the recitation of the rhyme, and just walk the beat. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I caught him, clasping my hand over his mouth before he finished the rhyme. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"I think you will, Miss Honey, because I have to use your first name to make things rhyme and that's why I don't want to say it." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was going, “I’ve done some of it before. I had this boyfriend, he played the guitar. Somehow he tricked me into doing a thing or two before I realized his lyrics didn’t rhyme.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gladys and I rose early to peel potatoes, then we sat for hours in the front porch playing jacks or jumping rope to made-up rhymes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

To be honest, she was more impressed than envious when it came to Mini’s knack for rhyming. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was pretty creative about rhyming those cuss words. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Or if it was a girl walking by, he would rhyme about her. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Izzy stood off to the side, her mouth opening and closing silently around some new rhyme she was working on. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Nobody finished the rhyme, but everyone was watching her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The stories are threaded with rhymes and echoes. The Adjacent by Christopher Priest – review 2013-06-26T09:56:10Z

“Poetry does have a tremendous impact on kids,” enthuses Nesbitt, a true believer in the potential of rollicking rhymes. Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate 2013-06-15T14:58:08Z

She is athletic, using compressed rhyme schemes to comment on gentrification, police brutality, beauty norms, and heartbreak. On the Hypnotic “Room 25,” Noname Comes of Age 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

But even though math is its primary focus, Peg + Cat also offers lessons in collaboration and teamwork, rhyming, and alliteration. 9 amazing preschool shows developed by early learning experts 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” splicing together the history of funk and soul with countless pop-culture references and audacious, tag-team rhymes. Beastie Boys' Adam 'MCA' Yauch dead at 47 2012-05-04T19:35:00Z

Studio Backpack Rap, Eagle Eye and Collapse offer deft accompaniment to smart rhymes about anger, society and last year's riots. Speech Debelle: Freedom of Speech ? review 2012-02-09T22:30:01Z

I'm astonished to find Davenport so unwilling to let me see the rhyme. Secrets of In the Night Garden 2010-08-15T20:59:00Z

Ms. Glück — her surname rhymes with click, not cluck — was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z

The song is brutally long, oddly cavalier and lyrically lazy, with Dylan sifting through a shoe box of old Polaroids, trying to make them rhyme. Review | Bob Dylan holds a mirror up to America and sees himself 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

And unwittingly resurrect dormant desires in three women who haven’t quite gotten over his wistful rhymes and crooning guitar chords. ‘I Will Make You Mine’ Review: Three Times a Lady 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show” was so inspired, he made up a presidential nursery rhyme. Dwayne Johnson Sounds Pretty Serious About Running for President 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z

Poetry — which prompts you with rhymes — is far easier to memorize than prose, so even illiterates could hear it and pass it along. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Capturing the pandemic and protests in poetry 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Stephen Sondheim has a particular hate for Ira's lyrics, referring to them in his book as "rhyming poison." Michael Feinstein is keeping the standards alive 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

On the reverse of the title page, Charlotte offered a modest disclaimer: “The following are attempts at rhyming of an inferior nature it must be acknowledged, but they are nevertheless my best.” A Tiny Brontë Book, Sold for $1.25 Million, to Return Home 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z

As portrayed here, there is no scriptural rhyme or reason to the event. Artful 'Leftovers' on HBO leaves viewers wanting more 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The cast will be trapped in a closed white space, under a ceiling that moves up and down without rhyme or reason. A Transgender Director Who Defies Genres (to France’s Confusion) 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z

Guglielmo Galvin was a master of light Businessmen who wanted to look important were persuaded to recite nursery rhymes, incorporating swearwords. Guglielmo Galvin obituary 2013-03-08T14:20:22Z

Subsequently, it was sent to Random House, tinkered with, colored in, published, sent to members of the media along with confidentiality agreements, and, on Tuesday, reviewed in rhyming verse by Michiko Kakutani, in the Times. Good News: The New Dr. Seuss Won’t Retroactively Ruin Your Childhood 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z

And at least two — any two — of the lines must rhyme. Style Invitational Week 1301: Tell us a Fib 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

But brash rhymes only get you so far in today’s celebrity-and-personality driven music culture. Run the Jewels return, right on time 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

He just looked around the room for a rhyme and saw a chair. Q&A: Humorist Dave Barry 2010-05-14T08:00:00Z

He wears a gas mask and speaks in moronic but well-turned rhymes. Books of The Times: ‘NOS4A2,’ a Novel by Joe Hill 2013-04-28T20:53:12Z

"I use rhymes," she writes elsewhere, "to catch stray dreams that happen to float past me." A Hospital Odyssey by Gwyneth Lewis 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

I’ve really sold myself down the river by trying to use words that rhyme. Blind date: ‘His housemate brought him his dinner dressed as a waiter’ 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

Ludacris has a lot of fun with rhymes in this one: Like Many Classic Songs, Fergie's New Single Is Just a List of Random Cities 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

After that he couldn’t quite come up with a rhyme, or even just a couple of words to close out the thought, so he abandoned it with a laugh. Music Review: Rap?s Pied Piper, Lil B, at Santos Party House 2010-07-26T22:36:00Z

He is best known for "Hot Boy," a gritty hit song with rhymes about street violence. 'Hot Boy' rapper Bobby Shmurda gets 7-year prison sentence 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

After filling composition books with rhymes, an uncle urged her to put her spoken word to beats, beginning with a freestyle over the local hero Meek Mill’s “In My Bag.” 15 Songs in 15 Minutes: Inside Tierra Whack’s Whimsical, Twisted World 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

Teflon Heart is the one that rhymes "cinema" with "tarantula", and "hypochondria" with "insomnia" and "algebra". New band of the day ? No 1,080: Caged Animals 2011-08-09T15:48:00Z

But get past that and the song’s verses are packed with internal rhymes and tensions. Jack Harlow Knows What He Wants. And Where He Stands. 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

Rye Rye delivered her rat-a-tat rhymes — fast, competitive boasts — over the sparse electronic propulsion of Baltimore club music while she outdanced everyone else on the festival bill. Music Review: M.I.A., Sleigh Bells and the Hard NYC Festival 2010-07-26T01:21:00Z

You would expect that some of the money spent on this album could have bought a rhyming dictionary, but perhaps they blew the budget on guest stars. Justin Bieber's Believe: The Pop Prince Comes of Age 2012-06-19T10:45:48Z

It is encouraging that something as frankly bizarre as “Cats”—which eschews all but the barest narrative, and glories in silly rhymes and an art-for-art’s-sake absurdity—appeals to so many. Memories of “Cats” 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

If anyone said anything, I wrote it down: things about teachers, poems and rhymes. Happy hour again: Paul Heaton tours UK pubs on his bike 2012-06-06T17:30:11Z

This week: Ask a question and answer it with a rhyme, as in the examples above from 2000. Style Invitational Week 1079: Little riddle rhymes; and the winning car ‘fictoids’

The Mission itself could probably have sustained us the entire week — bilingual rhyme time at the local library, a tour of Mission murals — but my legs were restless. The Frugal Traveler in San Francisco With His Year-Old Daughter 2010-03-13T03:49:00Z

Oh yes, he’s Shrimpy, Rose’s dad, last seen in the 2012 Christmas episode and returning here with seemingly no rhyme or reason. Downton Abbey recap: series five, episode four – dangerously close to an actual plot 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

There’s no real rhyme or reason to any of them, she says. Bria Vinaite: from Instagram entrepreneur to starring opposite Willem Dafoe 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

“Fast forward a little bit. Word starts to spread mid-to-late 90s that Jay doesn’t actually write any of his rhymes down.” ‘No Pen, No Pad’: The Unlikely Way Rap Is Written Today 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z

He dishes plenty of unaccompanied rhymes, and doesn’t need any help from a hype man or guest MCs. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

For most of it, Mr. West was on a platform in the audience, shouting his rhymes with visceral, sweaty insistence. A Year of Concerts With Staying Power 2013-12-29T22:45:02Z

In “Deep Down in the Jungle: Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia,” published in 1964, he analyzed the street rhymes and repartee he observed and recorded in South Philadelphia. Roger D. Abrahams, Folklorist Who Studied African-American Language, Dies at 84 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

And so few words rhyme with “public charge.” Perspective | Don’t let the Trump administration vandalize Lady Liberty’s inspiring message 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Or “Georgia Sand,” a typical exercise in rhymed name-dropping — about the romance between George Sand and Alfred de Musset, no less — that almost feels like a Porter parody? Theater Review: Cole Porter’s ‘Nymph Errant’ Is Revived 2012-07-13T22:47:11Z

Of course, if you’re asking 12-year-olds to sing part of “Ten Little Indians,” a 19th-century nursery rhyme that includes disturbing lyrics involving the death of Native Americans, you need to explain why. In ‘Thanksgiving Play,’ the Pageantry of ‘Well-Meaning’ White People 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

The polyglot crowd spit back his rhymes, profanities included, with enthusiasm. Primavera Sound Sets the Stage for Music Festivals Worldwide 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took to rhyming verse in response to what he saw as unfair criticism, so it seems entirely appropriate that his modern-day adapter Mark Gatiss might do the same. Is Sherlock worse for too much action? Gatiss sends his verse reaction 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z

Several of the sheets include groups of rhyming words which he used as springboards for additional lines of verse. Unpublished Dylan lyrics to be sold in New York 2011-06-08T19:35:04Z

From truck drivers to migrant workers to fishermen, Pat Brisson’s gently cadenced rhyming text pays grateful homage to all those who contribute their work along the way. ‘Before We Eat: From Farm to Table,’ by Pat Brisson, illustrated by Mary Azarian

His website on Irish historical myths pores over surviving evidence and concludes she is just a usefully rhyming stock ballad character. Tart with a cart? Older song shows Dublin's Molly Malone in new light 2010-07-18T16:48:00Z

Penny constantly drew my attention to the way elements of a painting match or "rhyme" each other: a mandrill and stone ball, two counterpointed figures. Young British Artists versus old masters 2012-06-01T21:55:05Z

Or maybe he just liked the way that rhyme sounded more than he disliked what it implied. Hip-Hop Changes. Eminem Doesn’t. 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

That creepy nursery rhyme did far more of the trick. Doctor Who: The Beast Below ? series 31, episode two 2010-04-10T18:00:00Z

That same Heaney-Hughes anthology, alongside Ogden Nash and nursery rhymes, includes a poem of Smith’s, “Fairy Story,” which is among the most evocative I know. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

It's just a truism that it happens, often without warning, rhyme or reason. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z

Wale’s verses spoke to a frisky formalism, studded with internal rhymes and winking pop-culture references. Music Review | K?Naan and Wale: At Fillmore, K?Naan?s Boasts, Wale?s Frisky Formalism 2010-04-01T21:34:00Z

So never to use rhyme in your poetry would be a bit like buying a car and never getting out of second gear. Top 10 tips for writing poetry 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

“The thought bobbed on the waves” of rhyme and meter, Brecht later said of his early output. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

"So you went from teacher to preacher because, what, it f**kin' rhymes?" she deadpans. "The Last of Us" makes an unholy meal of starving childhood innocence, served bloody 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Then you get on the mic and you realize, I put too many words in this rhyme to say it and then I'm losing breath. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Having paid his dues a few times over, Lamar kick-started Sunday night’s ceremony pretty much by himself, his mouth overflowing with pungent, locomotive rhymes. Perspective | The Grammys clearly have no interest in fixing their rap problem 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

This is an artisanal album, no rhyme or drum out of place. Playlist: Debuts From Roc Marciano and Miranda Cosgrove 2010-05-07T17:23:00Z

More skilled and perhaps more interesting is K.Flay, 26, a Stanford graduate and a talented vocalist who uses rhyming as a sonic technique. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z

Sung by Mr. Barrett, the song is a man’s assessment of fashion and femininity whose clever, elaborate rhymes by Alan Jay Lerner can’t camouflage its blatant sexism. Flop Shows’ Tunes at Lyrics & Lyricists at the 92nd Street Y 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

A genius has wisdom to spare, Pulls great insights out of the air, Discerns hidden truths When no more than a youth, And fully understands limerick rhyme and meter. Style Invitational Week 1193: Poedtry II, plus winning limericks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

You can hear it in the way that he strings words along, all the internal rhymes. Out and Riding High in Nashville 2013-05-24T12:00:31Z

That gritty, realistic snapshot of urban crime was uplifted by the duo’s masterful, unrelenting rhymes. Pop & Rock Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Her songs were terse, scrappy and so skillfully phrased that they sounded like conversation, despite the neatness of their rhymes. Loretta Lynn Didn’t Pretty Things Up 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

He won the competition, impressing judges Cardi B, T.I. and Chance the Rapper with his ability as a multi-instrumentalist and bilingual rapper who could easily switch from English to Spanish in his rhymes. Q&A: Rapper D Smoke takes patient walk to Grammy recognition 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

That their shows makes such abrupt transitions regularly, in rhyme using a 17th-century vocabulary, helps explain why the Improvised Shakespeare Company is one of the country’s elite improv companies. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

But it evokes a rhyming of themes and of visual movement more than a clash of sensibilities. Movie Review: Mary Frank and Tacita Dean Shape Two Documentaries 2014-04-15T22:43:26Z

In response to the image directly ahead of theirs in line, most of the participants picked a rhyming one from their archives, but a few of the pictures were newly made. Review | In the galleries: Sequence of photographs creates a graphic continuity 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

His use of rhyme is only the most obvious aspect of this. It’s Not the Music. It’s Not the Lyrics. It’s the Drama. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Lloyd described the production as "the theatre of our childhood – of rhymes and sticks and a rope – a world where small things carry vast meaning". Fiona Shaw to perform Rime of the Ancient Mariner in London 2012-11-30T13:27:58Z

Wayne's rhymes occasionally spark, but don't quite crackle with the cool wit and dexterous wordplay we are used to from the rapper. Rapper Lil Wayne releases new CD of pre-prison tracks 2010-10-12T21:40:00Z

Then, picking up the "moon" rhyme for the first line, and plainly echoing Fitzgerald, Thompson expands into a longer-lined, highly emotive tercet. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z

It was too long And did not rhyme. John Keats, Chopped Prose and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

In this translation the rhymes are often approximate and the refrain wan: “I beg of you, contain your wrath for all / God’s creatures need the help of all.” Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

The surprise appearance from a sleep-walking farmer was good and the text flowed at a rhyming fun fast pace. Farmer Clegg's Night Out by Peter Bently - review 2012-07-31T11:00:00Z

Next week’s results: Little Piddle Riddle or Wise Guys’ Replies Arise, our contest to supply a riddle whose answer is a rhyming phrase. Style Invitational Week 1082: Band on the Pun — slightly alter the name of a music act

He’s as obsessed with internal rhymes as Cam’ron, and maybe more adept at them. Earl Sweatshirt and ASAP Ferg, Hip-Hop Progressives 2013-08-15T16:50:54Z

You have only to listen to Porter’s score — a swoon-worthy progression of deftly shifting rhythms and sophisticated rhymes and musical motifs — to understand the show’s timeless charm. Review | On Broadway, I just saw my first ‘Kiss Me, Kate.’ It was worth the wait. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

“When he asked if I still loved him, I didn’t / answer; / but of course, I loved him. / He’d become, by then, like the rhyme between lost / and most.” Pulitzer Prizes 2023: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

One was the fine moment with Betty White, whose jeweled irises rhymed with her enchanted earrings. At the Emmys, the TV Industry Runs Past Schedule to Reckon with Its Past 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Folds, a newcomer to the team with a singing voice that scales the heights of exasperation, took us on a rhymed excursion through the overcrowded purgatory of Times Square. ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

One aspect of the art of rhyme is to avoid grammatical monotony by rhyming varied parts of speech. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

However, it is almost like DMX refuses to meet R&B halfway: He rhymes an unapologetic full-throated street narrative while Aaliyah plays a beleaguered partner who just wants him to be safe. DMX: Hear 10 Essential Songs 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

So I just started writing these goofy little rhyming poems and illustrating them. George Saunders's Humor 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Such poetic license might be more forgivable for the sake of clever cadence, but this is a song that tries to rhyme “Brexit’‘ with “Taylor Swift.” Olivia Rodrigo’s Gutsy Catharsis, and 12 More New Songs 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z

The fast-thinking geniuses who turn audience suggestions into hilarious, rapid-fire rhyme leave you feeling happy and, yes, a little sad, too, after their 75 minutes of adrenaline-infused cavorting on the Greenwich House Theater stage. Review | Lin-Manuel Miranda and Co. do it again. But this time, the hip-hop show is all for laughs. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

It also did its best to abide by strict rules of meter and rhyme. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere, the show is most satisfying when Broderick riffs with ideas as well as rhymes. Abandoman 2010-08-16T14:49:00Z

In February, Dodie uploaded a song about the album’s first postponement, a slyly wistful waltz that rhymes “an unfortunately nasty fusion” with “vinyl distribution.” Dodie Can’t Resist Sharing. It’s Made Her Music Soar. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

The real wit came in their perfectly honed rhymes combining brand names and unexpected pop culture references embedded in the usual braggadocio trade-offs. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

By refusing to indulge in the macho poses that have dominated mainstream hip-hop for decades, and blurring the line between singing and rhyming, he becomes instantly divisive – and occasionally he gets defensive about it. Album review: Drake, 'Take Care' 2011-11-13T19:26:00Z

Her family has been a great support and inspiration, she says, particularly Malcolm who does a first reading of her new work in a “Dylan Thomas-y voice” to check that the rhymes work. Real life ugly beasts inspire new book by 'Gruffalo' author Donaldson 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

But for Snoop Dogg it has been a lucrative persona; his encores, newer songs, set similar rhymes to more bombastic productions. Music Review: Hip-Hop History, Recreated by Those Who Made It 2010-08-29T23:06:00Z

But here too, while his guests indulge to the point of whimsy, Mr. Banks sounds comparably miserable, a stoic more in love with his rhymes than anything else. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z

There is little rhyme or reason to the way Trump has gone about punishing disfavored journalists and news organizations. No, there’s no rhyme or reason to Trump’s ban on news organizations 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

All the final lines rhyme consonantally: mouth, death, birth, forth, earth. Poem of the week: Rublev by Rowan Williams 2011-07-18T11:01:24Z

As for the rhymes, often stressed on the wrong syllable, one can only assume they are designed to make you cringe. Review: In ‘Fairycakes,’ the Woods Are Campy, Dark and Daft 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z

She puns and rhymes and turns words inside out. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z

One of these is a rhyme that runs, “One is a bun, two is a shoe, three is a tree” and so on up to 10. Total Recall: A Reader’s Guide to Memory Gain 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

Student draws out her vowel sounds in proper Atlanta fashion and is partial to densely packed, quickly spat rhymes. New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z

Some say that "prettying it up in poem" can't disguise the fact that the request is presumptuous, while others say they don't mind being asked for cash – "just as long as the request doesn't rhyme". Marrying couples increasingly wrap requests for money in bad poetry 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

Tyler, ironically played by the superbly named Tony Discipline, also has a filthy temper, so far reserved for the market inspectorate's rhyming mini Hitler, Mr Lister. Daniel Maier's World of lather 2011-08-05T23:04:00Z

The magpies of the title are a reference to the nursery rhyme correlating the number of magpies seen with good or bad luck: Maintaining the "Magpie Murders" main title mystery: The clues, the murders and a bird masquerade 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

An Act I number called “The Madison Avenue Line” is particularly hilarious, and as Act II opens, Mr. Mills shows that lots of things rhyme with “to the moon.” Review: ‘The Honeymooners,’ Still Striving, but Now Tunefully 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Van Alexander, a composer and arranger who adapted a nursery rhyme into “A-Tisket, A-Tasket,” which became Ella Fitzgerald’s breakout hit in 1938, died on July 19 at a hospital near his home in Los Angeles. Van Alexander, Composer of ‘A-Tisket, A-Tasket,’ Dies at 100 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Impossibly agile and saturated with melody, his rhymes were high-precision chaos, like birdsong at dawn or an NBA playoff game squeaking on hardwood into overtime. Review | Lil Baby’s inside voice is the sound of a restless American summer 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

One of my favourite translations – Allen Mandelbaum's – doesn't rhyme but manages the rhythm beautifully, and is accurate enough to be an excellent crib. Nicholas Lezard on Dante 2013-05-09T08:45:00Z

The sound of an addled ad creative realising, belatedly, that nothing actually rhymes with "orange". Tango, the new TV advert 2013-07-13T05:00:00Z

Hip-hop has hit middle age, with rappers like Jay-Z and Kanye West pondering their longevity and tenuous places within the genre’s hierarchy through rhyme. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Ordeal by Innocence’ and ‘Great Performances’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Coward's rarely do, and he makes the abundance of inner rhymes sound swift and natural. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z

Released in 1951, the book, with its sober mien, dutiful meter and scrupulous rhymes, was praised by reviewers for its impeccable command of form. Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Author, Dies at 82 2012-03-28T23:54:57Z

The F-bomb plea on the minds of every parent at one point or another is the title of a buzz magnet of a book parody written in kid-friendly rhyme. Go the bleep to sleep, dad writes in bestseller 2011-05-16T17:23:08Z

“Just as nice seeing it twice,” rhymed Tom, and the crowd couldn’t agree more. 'Dancing With the Stars' results recap: Wendy's out of time 2011-04-06T14:00:12Z

It’s fitting that the musical opened on the same night as the first Republican primary debate: ten men who desperately need to bust a rhyme. The Women of “Hamilton” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. West’s rhymes are usually convoluted bursts of self-promotion, self-protection and self-criticism, but his production makes them imposing. At Concert for Sandy Relief, Big Names Find the Right Tone 2012-12-13T12:52:08Z

Santos, who is also a mother, recommends showing kids many different types of poetry, especially those that don’t rhyme, and asking them what they notice. Perspective | Why kids need poetry in their lives, and how to spark their interest in it 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

There’s also spoken word, weak humor, self-help advice and earnest, rhymed doggerel about hope. Dance Review: Soul Steps and Dance Theater of Ireland - Review 2011-11-23T23:44:41Z

Dead Generation rhymes generation with imagination and betrays a startling paucity of same. New band of the day (LAC No 1,529) 2013-06-10T17:08:21Z

Mr. Groening — whose name rhymes with “raining” — was one of the writers on the episode. ‘Simpsons’ Creator Says of Apu Criticism, ‘People Love to Pretend They’re Offended’ 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

In one memorable scene, Eminem describes how he sees verses as a puzzle to figure out, pushing words around, sandwiching rhyming words inside phrases as well as at the end of the sentence. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

And his "b" rhyme gets a further rhyme, so each stanza, in effect, ends on a couplet. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

She is as much a rocker as a rapper; even when she was rhyming, her phrases were more melodic than chanted. Ana Tijoux and Danay Suárez at Latin Alternative Music Conference 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

And even when his rhymes are at their most inspired, I found myself admiring the virtuosity more than I was laughing. Abandoman 2010-08-16T14:49:00Z

A quick tour through Williams’s office reveals a man who tends to collect without rhyme or reason. Why does conservative Armstrong Williams want to buy the liberal Washington City Paper? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Under oath, Cherry said Sheridan appeared confused by his instructions to use physical comedy - a tickle or pinch to her stage husband after he jokes that "needy" rhymes with Edie. Jury will soon offer finale in 'Housewives' trial 2012-03-11T16:31:09Z

The revelation of “Hamilton” is how easily Miranda’s hip-hop rhymes work like a verse-driven Shakespearean history, and how profoundly audiences have responded to seeing performers of color portraying the country’s white founders. Pulitzers: Broadway’s ‘Hamilton,’ novel ‘The Sympathizer’ among arts winners 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

They occupy the same brain space as nursery rhymes and Beatles tracks: you don't remember not knowing them. Anyone Who Had a Heart by Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield – review 2013-07-21T08:00:02Z

But Snoop had menace in his rhymes, and a slithery voice that seeped into the crevasses of a beat. New Music: Big Boi’s ‘Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors,’ and Lifehouse 2012-12-10T23:17:11Z

In this record, Bame, Jota and DJ Antioch pick up on old school hip-hop sounds, throwing inspired rhymes about cosmos, love and eternity. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z

Both rappers routinely pen intricate, multilayered rhymes that retain their visceral impact. Jay-Z and Kanye West ? review 2012-05-20T16:24:58Z

He seeded his writing with a blend of gentle humor and folk wisdom wrapped in tight rhymes and loose meters, as in his poem “Take Care of Yer Friends”: Baxter Black, Who Elevated Cowboy Poetry to Folk Art, Dies at 77 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

He delivers rhymes as haggard chants, then rises above them to sing in a voice that sounds sleepless and anxious, constantly looking over his shoulder. Review: ‘Aquaria,’ a Dark Debut Album by Boots 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

And his lyrics with Silverman too often wander in search of a rhyme, then, sighting one in the distance, botch it. Review: Sarah Silverman’s ‘Bedwetter’ Musical Has Sprung a Leak 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

The authors’ nearly perfect solution is a pastiche Caribbean score whose words are restrained and delicately rhymed but whose music is relentlessly grabby and emotional. Review: ‘Once on This Island,’ Revived and Ravishing 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

Common is known for socially and politically conscious rhymes. Jon Stewart to rap with Bill O'Reilly on 'Factor' 2011-05-13T23:01:05Z

Yet, with their melancholy physicality, the works actually rhyme with the old house, highlighting the decaying wood, the cracks in the floors, the dingy wall panels. Tony Greene: Melancholy in paint, given new dimension at MAK Center 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

In the past, he has proposed that, for National Poetry Day, all human affairs be conducted in rhyme, with the exception of the emergency sevices. John Cooper Clarke: 'It's diabolical how poor I am' 2012-05-29T18:00:02Z

In a piece about “The Anthology of Rap,” a bulky tome of classic rap lyrics, she quoted an erroneously transcribed ODB rhyme. Hip-hop joins the public radio fold as NPR Music continues its expansion

“The Jolly Fat Man” is jazzy fun, but Cullum tries unsuccessfully to rhyme hat with dispatch and relax with back. Get in the holiday mood with Carrie Underwood, Dolly Parton 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z

In the last stanza, though, Housman rhymes three intransitive verbs – "nighs", "sighs", "replies". Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

Like the early gangsta rap stars, the founding fathers forge rhyme, reason and a sovereign identity out of tumultuous lives. Review: In ‘Hamilton,’ Lin-Manuel Miranda Forges Democracy Through Rap 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

Their rhymes were clever, hilarious and sometimes just plain idiotic – forming a lethal combination with Rubin’s stockpile of rock guitar riffs. Beastie Boys' Adam 'MCA' Yauch dead at 47 2012-05-04T19:35:00Z

Lil B appears on Soulja Boy’s new album, rapping on the harsh “30 Thousand 100 Million,” and in spirit on several other songs in which Soulja Boy borrows his rhyme patterns and unusual moods. Music Review: Tossing Out Rhymes and Dollar Bills 2010-12-03T23:04:00Z

Wright's music established a mood of timid hope, accompanying Morgan's lyrics, which rhymed "Shoobert" with a line about longing for a future with "you, Bert". Geoffrey Wright obituary 2010-12-07T18:28:00Z

In one hilarious scene he plays a selection of his mumbled, listless rhymes to Sean "Diddy" Combs, who listens in a state of angry confusion. Venice festival: I'm Still Here 2010-09-06T16:32:00Z

Ms. Rendell — the accent is on the first syllable, to rhyme with Kendall — was considered one of the foremost writers of crime fiction in recent decades, with more than 60 books to her credit. Ruth Rendell, prolific British crime novelist, dies at 85 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

The hand-written notes include a near-final draft of the lyrics, a few scattered doodles of animals in the margins, and most evocatively, several rhymes that never made the final cut. Somebody Just Bought Bob Dylan's Handwritten Lyrics for Record $2M 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Although there's no central story this week, "Family Limitation" is held together by visual and thematic rhymes. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Everyone's screwed 2010-10-25T05:01:00Z

After the title is picked, one actor steps up to recite a prologue, all in unrehearsed rhyme. Shakespeare gets the improv treatment with a comic troupe 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z

Some have been surprised to learn that this musical form is all about lyrical dexterity, about elevating vernacular speech into rhyming, rapid-fire verse. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

By their mid-teens, the two were rhyming together and formed an early version of A Tribe Called Quest. Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of hip-hop’s influential A Tribe Called Quest, dies at 45 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

He's built up anticipation for his debut with his soulful social commentary and slick Southern rhymes on several mixtapes, including "Return of 4Eva." Review: Big K.R.I.T. misses mark with debut album 2012-06-04T17:04:09Z

Third are the translations prepared for performances in English, which involve free-wheeling adaptations of the original that maintain the rhyme schemes but often convey just an approximation of what is being said. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

The rhyming of history made me reach back to nineteen-twenties and thirties references. Cover Story: Richard McGuire’s “Fat Cats” 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

When "souling", these cakes would be handed out as people sung a rhyme: "Soul, soul, for a soul-cake; Pray you, good mistress, a soul cake." Halloween foods from history reveal the holiday’s surprising romantic side — and you can try them yo 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gioia, a lifelong jazz fan, is a lucid, accessible poet, who, for the purposes of this project, used rhyming couplets. Review: ‘Sung With Words,’ a Collaboration by a Pianist and a Poet 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

The songwriter who reshaped the American musical theater in the second half of the 20th century with his intelligent, intricately rhymed lyrics, his use of evocative melodies and his willingness to tackle unusual subjects. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

At the same time, its use here reminds the reader of other elegiac poems – Gray's Elegy, perhaps, also in iambic pentameter and rhymed ABAB. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z

He cheekily punches the last syllables, emphasizing what the play’s subtitle already warned us about: We’re seeing a thriller in rhyme. ‘The Smuggler’ Review: A Barman’s Rambling Yarn 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

What kind of a hack would lower himself to rhyming “Nietzsche” with “preachy”? Making Shakespeare Their Own, Serious and Silly 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z

After a melancholy introduction, “Settle Down” launches into the reggae beats, Gwen-Stefani-drawled rhymes and sing-along-friendly chorus that listeners will recognize from favorite No Doubt songs like “Just a Girl” and “Spiderwebs.” No Doubt Releases New Single, “Settle Down”—Listen Now 2012-07-16T15:01:25Z

Ms. Dimoldenberg asked, prompting Mr. Theroux to launch into his rhymes in what he described as “my slightly po-faced and dry English delivery.” How Louis Theroux Became a ‘Jiggle Jiggle’ Sensation at Age 52 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z

“You always stick with things that rhyme: Meals on Wheels, crack is whack, hop on pop, two buck chuck, avoid the noid, be kind rewind.” Late-night TV roundup: 'Trump lied on Twitter during a hearing about him lying on Twitter' 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Also, his rhymes scan – it's difficult to set TS Eliot to music. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z

It frequently emerges without the help of rhyme, through a mastery of quick-moving tonal subtleties. Poem of the week: Showing Me by Sam Gardiner 2011-04-04T09:59:20Z

It is characterized by rhyme, repetition, word play and improvisation. Amanda Gorman’s poetry shows why spoken word belongs in school 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

In fact, the fourth stanza talks about the "blues", including the word in its trio of rhymes, and about how walking cures them. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z

I played the song over and over again – until I captured every reference, every rhyme and every image and then played it more. I always loved hip-hop, but Nas transformed me into a fan, which ultimately changed my life 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z

Be vigilant for such phrases as “Rob commuted to his job,” with its amusingly jarring inadvertent rhyme. Meet the Guardian of Grammar Who Wants to Help You Be a Better Writer 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Bruno plays a character called Raspberry, a cute nickname if her mother hadn't been thinking of the rhyming slang for cripple. Raspberry 2010-04-06T20:30:00Z

Another, “#47,” is all resonance, buzz and rhyme. Vibrant beauty in L.A. artist Merion Estes' 'Lost Horizons' 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z

Two full, improvised rhymes from Q-Tip summed up the evening’s significance. Jason Moran and Q-Tip usher in the Kennedy Center’s hip-hop era. 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

But it has no historical rhyme or reason. At the Met Museum, an Abstract Show That Falls Short of Epic 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

At one point, a fan demands he tell an obscene nursery rhyme, his signature bit. Andrew Dice Clay Returns, With at Least Two Personalities Showing 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

One thing that consumed her interest was preparing a treasure hunt for their fifth wedding anniversary, as she has done each year before: offering clues in rhyme to the hiding places of various gifts. Gone Girl Plays a Fatal Game of Love and Marriage 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

The rhyming is denser than before, thanks to the similarity of the "d" and "f" rhymes: beach/ scratch/ match/ each. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z

Told in rhyming stanzas and accompanied by storybook-style illustrations, the book chronicles a parent's fruitless efforts to put his child down for the night. 'Go the F— to Sleep' author announces a f—ing sequel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

That’s just one of the dozens of internal rhymes densely packed into the project. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

The resemblance of the young to the old is, most often, mere accident of wrinkles, the kind produced by baby fat rhyming with the kind produced by age. Baby Faces and the Myth of the Child’s Mind 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

And the movie saunters between these two modes with minimal rhyme or reason. ‘Superintelligence’ Review: Melissa McCarthy Has to Save the World 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

Now let's have the real thing, addressing a similar concern: "He's highbrow in a big, big way/But when he sees that I'm/The one, he'll think that it's okay/For poetry to rhyme." Selected Poems by Sophie Hannah – review 2013-05-21T13:02:48Z

"Even when I'm 70 I'm still gonna write rhymes," he declared. Ghostface Killah plans to record 'positive album' about Allah 2013-04-17T14:19:45Z

He explains the scan and rhyming structure, and uses footnotes to clarify obscure street slang. Jay-Z: good from the hood 2010-11-20T00:03:00Z

As the economy has nose-dived, the "disaffected youth" of the republic have vented their frustrations in rhyme. TV highlights 11/07/2012 2012-07-10T18:59:01Z

Or a limerick whose rhyme Runs out ere the fifth line, And you flail around and eventually give up. Style Invitational Week 1088: Our winning F-word limericks! (No, not that F-word.)

Approximate rhymes are important to rap artists, so things sound alike, as if they're glittering and brilliant. Stephen Sondheim: A life in music 2010-12-20T08:00:00Z

The former moves from rhymed stanzas to free verse and from exquisite language to surreal or raw images. The best poetry books for December 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

If it’s “amun,” rhyming with famine, they are from Winters. What Two Writers Found When They Bought a Plane and Touched Down on Main Street, U.S.A. 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

The film is a “cheerfully chaotic jumble of fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters,” Stephen Holden wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Atlanta’ and ‘Black Panther’ 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

Nash’s are hard to decipher anyway; because rhyme and scansion aren’t her thing, the ear gets no help. Review: In ‘Only Gold,’ Each Move Is Worth 1,000 Words 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z

You gotta love a lyric that rhymes "tractor" with "nuclear reactor." Review: 'Iron Curtain' turns Cold War into a splashy romp 2011-04-07T19:24:04Z

The French Chilean rapper, known internationally for her rapid-fire rhymes and socially conscious themes, says the piece came to her in an airport.  Why rapper Ana Tijoux won't be a sex object for her music 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

The rules: Four lines rhyming AABB; a person’s name ending the first line; and a meter that sounds like the worst entries for our contests in which we want good meter. Style Invitational: Gaaah! It’s Limerixicon XII 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Q. What song lyric might you use to rhyme with “Don’t worry about the violent post-election uprising?” Style Invitational Week 1408: Re-Organization — tweak the name of a charity 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

It’s impressive that you guys rhymed obstreperous with “a cost to us.” Q&A: Robin Thicke on Blurred Lines, the Video Music Awards and Working With Dad Alan Thicke 2013-07-26T14:49:55Z

It’s one thing — a complicated, prodigious thing — to write such fastidious lyrics, and then to mock that fastidiousness by rhyming “Hallelujah” with “what’s it to ya.” An Appraisal: Leonard Cohen, Master of Meanings and Incantatory Verse 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

At the Purchase show, as he performed a biography of Marco Polo, rhyming as he flipped through his drawings, the students mellowed and drew close like toddlers at story hour. Jeffrey Lewis, Singer and Illustrator 2011-11-22T23:09:54Z

This board book challenges stereotypes early with rhymes and drawings that address grown-up issues like equal pay, consent and domestic labor with toddler-level directness. 12 groundbreaking books for young readers of all genders 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

For both men, the engine of poetry was not rhyme or even form but rhythm, and the organ by which it communicated was the listening ear as opposed to the reading eye. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

You wrote the first rhymes, the Sugarhill Gang, what happened with that? As hip-hop turns 50, Chuck D praises its power as "a worldwide cultural experience and religion" 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

Simon narrates the story, often dropping in his rhyming observations about his life, but it takes a little time for him to get comfortable sharing them with his friends, classmates and the wider community. New kids’ books reflect the diversity of writing in verse 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

I settle on trying to memorise William Blake's Auguries of Innocence, reasoning that its emphatic rhymes will help the learning process. How to learn poetry by heart 2013-01-09T18:04:27Z

For example, children’s nursery rhymes are 11 times more violent than television programmes aired before 9pm in Britain, one study found. Better and better 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Let kids say the first line; it’s up to you to find the rhyme. 11 Fun Activities to Do on a Rainy Day 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Around the 1930s, ceramics companies in the U.S. started taking artistic liberties, likely drawing on the nursery rhyme, and the vents morphed into whimsical birds with open beaks. All about pie birds, the whimsical Victorian-era baking tool 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

Oasis Britishness stripped down to its worst and most cynical cliches: arrogance without due, rhyme without style, sarcasm without wit, pose without prose, booze without tolerance, chav without street, repetition without foundation, Wonder without Wall. Ten bands I will be forced to listen to in hell 2012-07-11T14:15:00Z

I haven't written a rhyming poem now for many years, I seem to have lost my appetite for it but I haven't lost my pleasure in reading them. Top 10 tips for writing poetry 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

It weaves personal interviews that Wolfe conducted with miners and their families, as well as oral histories and speeches, local mining lore and rhymes, and coal industry advertisements, among other elements. Julia Wolfe's 'Anthracite Fields' wins 2015 Pulitzer Prize in music 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

His desire for an audience with the pope rhymes with hers to meet her idol. ‘The White Sheik’: Fellini’s Charming Farce About Fandom 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

A feast of bright colours and funny rhymes, this is a good read-aloud tale which includes a very generous helping of 'pants'. Elephant Pants by Smriti Prasadam-Halls - review 2012-07-19T11:00:00Z

Both recall the sample-driven production and the densely stacked rhymes of the 1990s but transcend mere tribute. Music Review: Food on His Mind, and in His Stomach as Well 2011-07-26T21:45:30Z

This modern version - performed this week for about 450 Cook County jail inmates - is a rhyming, rapping, poetic homage to the Bard. Hip-hop 'Othello' resonates behind bars 2013-08-30T13:57:05Z

Just savoring the delicious rhymes in the “Follies” casualty “Can That Boy Foxtrot,” is reward enough — even if having to deliver them while sexting does Ms. Molina no favors. Theater Review: ‘Marry Me a Little,’ Sondheim Songs, at Clurman Theater 2012-10-04T20:43:21Z

His Gotham-grimy rhymes are still thick and intricate, but they seem to float a little easier over the new tracks, all of which Mike self-produced. Perspective | Turnstile, Tinashe, Fay Victor, 42 Dugg — the fall concert season is here 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Until then, she sells snacks to help her “need for fly kicks” fund and rhymes about it with the wit of the Notorious B.I.G. Review | Angie Thomas follows up ‘The Hate U Give’ with the story of an aspiring hip-hop star 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Now she is “e-mail buddies” with Mr. Sondheim, whispering his rhymes while picking sweet peas in her backyard garden at home, 30 years after making a deliberate decision against a life in musicals. Imelda Staunton on Return to Musicals With Sondheim Roles 2012-08-10T01:35:08Z

But according to the nursery rhyme, “When the pie was opened/The birds began to sing/Wasn’t that a dainty dish/To set before a king?” Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

I would sit in my room and rhyme, and your moms and pops is in the next room, so you're quiet. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

“I’m the Jay-Z for Jamaica, don’t call me a faker,” he rhymed a few years ago. Music: Managing a Brand He Made Himself 2011-06-16T15:19:38Z

Often, Jay-Z’s boasts are contested by tracks with their own stubborn agendas: minor keys, empty spaces, unyielding arrangements that make his rhymes dodge and weave around them. Music Review: Jay-Z Frets on ‘Magna Carta Holy Grail’ 2013-07-04T22:31:32Z

I think of her reflections on Lewis Carroll, whose nonsense rhymes “made perfect sense” to Coleman “in my childhood world — Los Angeles in the ’50s.” Should L.A. have a Wanda Coleman Memorial Library? 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

They got to work, debating in texts and emails whether a part of Mr. Morris’s libretto should rhyme. An Aria for the Long Island Lolita on ‘Mozart in the Jungle’ 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

You hear Michael rhyme on “Wham! Rap” just about as bodaciously as Grandmaster Flash or with some of Kurtis Blow’s humor, and no cold sweats follow. ‘Wham!’ Review: They Made It Big, Then Broke Up 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. The Marshall Plan, Netflix and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

They’re also almost comically simple, emphasizing plain rhyme schemes and repetition. Critic’s Notebook: He’s Acting Out; It’s on Purpose 2013-07-10T21:52:21Z

The commercial features a set of white parents and their two children, rapping and rhyming about parenting experiences like “riding hard” in a minivan and “straight owning bake sales.” As a white parent, I solemnly swear to never do this 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

Often described as spare and elegant, it combined the natural cadences of speech with precise metrical control, keen wit and the judicious use of both end-rhyme and internal rhyme. Reed Whittemore, Former Poet Laureate, Dies at 92 2012-04-11T03:47:18Z

The question "Why does the world exist?" rhymes with the question "Why do I exist?" Q. & A.: Jim Holt on Why the World Exists 2012-07-18T14:09:41Z

Browning's poetry does what readers think poetry should do, ie supply natural and effortless rhyme, narrate a story and touch our hearts. Dickens, Browning and Lear: what's in a reputation? 2012-05-17T13:17:32Z

Mansfield sometimes uses regular rhyme schemes, but for The Candle she prudently chooses free verse. Poem of the week: The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 2010-07-19T11:11:00Z

And he "helps" them by handing out rhyming dictionaries? Seriously, Kurt and Blaine finally kiss on "Glee" -- but so what? 2011-03-16T13:17:00Z

At Rock the Bells words were central; performers would stop the backup and rhyme a cappella, the better to show off their ideas: “Capitalism and democracy are not synonymous,” Immortal Technique rapped. Critic’s Notebook: At the Electric Zoo and Rock the Bells Festivals 2012-09-03T22:49:01Z

Apparently, that's literally battling: they would begin by wrestling each other to the ground, then the competitive rhyming would start. New band of the day: Lady Lykez )No 1,509) 2013-05-09T15:02:23Z

Austin recalled, “He was telling a porky pie,” and laughed, using Cockney rhyming slang for a lie. George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Fergie is absent, leaving the group’s founding rappers to deliver rhymes that are slow and uncluttered, determined to be understood. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Of course, to Adams “fire” and “desire” may be the perfect rhyme. This is the laziest rhyme in all of songwriting history — and great artists use it all the time 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

Or at least he likes to come up with rhymes off the top of his head, which might be something different. Are you ready for the British MCs? 2010-07-29T22:34:00Z

I’m neutral on rhyming poetry, but I think a good poet can make that work without seeming sing-songy. How do I start writing poems? 2013-02-22T01:00:00Z

His rhymes are too simple and easily forgettable on the title track. Review: 50 Cent shows rust on ‘Animal Ambition’ 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z

But while the rhymes were vintage, so was the structure of the show: songs that don’t make it past the first chorus, a mishmash of guests of varying quality, a slowly weakening center of gravity. Music Review: Food on His Mind, and in His Stomach as Well 2011-07-26T21:45:30Z

The piece, entitled “Herz Schmerz,” or “heart pain,” a rhyme both silly and sad—and not a Walser quote—will première at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, in New York, on October 10th. Dancing to Robert Walser 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Michael was rhyming “go-go” with “yo-yo” and telling somebody to stay in bed with him and hitting delirious high notes, and we were powerless to resist; we couldn’t stop dancing. George Michael’s Pop Paradise 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z

In the German edition of my last novel, my translator Volker Oldenburg rendered a rhyming panoramic tableau by rescripting the items in order to make it rhyme in German too. David Mitchell: By the Book 2012-10-20T09:00:06Z

Astro once again shined as a writer and rapper, tying in events from last week's episodes into his raps and rhyming together countries where all his Twitter followers lived. LeRoy Bell eliminated on 'X Factor': ranking the field 2011-11-24T06:31:24Z

He delivers his verses in tight, mostly rhyming quatrains and quintets that march down the page like the work of Frederick Seidel or Mr. Muldoon himself. Books of The Times: ‘Alien vs. Predator,’ a Book of Poetry by Michael Robbins 2012-05-23T21:30:10Z

A lot of hiphop collaborating is done on email now, and rappers write rhymes on their phones. Seattle's first rap group Emerald Street Boys reunites at the Crocodile Saturday, 01/03/10 2010-04-02T01:50:00Z

The subjects are an awkward fit with the music; nothing rhymes or scans, and singer Joe Newman's vocals are creepy and insinuating. Best albums of 2012, No 7: Alt-J – An Awesome Wave 2012-12-06T14:25:00Z

This was no childhood compendium of riddles and rhymes. Sarah Silverman’s Family Show (Really!) About Divorce and Depression 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Time for Kids magazine wants you to submit a rhyming poem that will put the judges in stitches. Put your skills to the test and win a kid-focused contest 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

“Great literature is not easily consumed like pop songs that rhyme.” Bob Dylan’s Silence on Nobel Prize Is Called ‘Impolite and Arrogant’ by Academy Member 2016-10-22T04:00:00Z

My understanding of rhyming is the exaggerated thought. When Rakim met Wretch 32 2011-08-12T23:11:03Z

Among his best-known works in the genre is “Parodies,” a song cycle with texts culled from children’s jump-rope rhymes. Seymour Barab, 93, Composer of Playful Operas, Dies 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

He toggles between complex rhyme and cheap punch lines, working equally hard at both. For Mac Miller, Wale and J. Cole, Free Music Pays Off 2011-11-18T18:09:00Z

"When I started writing, nobody rhymed – it was in utter disrepute," she recalled. Kay Ryan: the un-American poet who will fly the US flag at Poetry Parnassus 2012-06-29T08:26:54Z

“It was just like poetry, rhyming lines without any melody.” Dr. John?s New Album ?Locked Down? and BAM Residency 2012-03-29T22:22:02Z

Their rebellion prompts the Celebrant to collapse in a 15-minute paroxysm of doubt, though, even when depicting a breakdown, Bernstein was unable to resist jarringly cute rhymes. Review: ‘Mass’ Brings Out the Worst in Leonard Bernstein 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

We just shot an episode where the entire thing is in rhyme. How I Met Your Mother Is Doing An All-Rhyming Episode 2013-11-05T19:08:34Z

But Ashton Kutcher, donning his trucker hat, came on stage to confirm that, no, he hadn’t been , just, well, you can do the rhyming. Stephen Colbert Spins a Band No-Show Into Comedy Gold 2013-08-07T16:55:43Z

So he also hopes that the rhythms of the piece and the rhymes of its verse will help unaccustomed ears to adjust. With ‘Cyrano,’ James McAvoy Is Savoring a ‘Purer Form of Storytelling’ 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Apart from the table, the stage is bare but full of change, quickening and dying under Paule Constable's lighting, made solemn or gleeful by the singing of hymns and nursery rhymes. Table; Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-20T23:08:26Z

Or that there really are rhymes for “meniscus”? Or that any performer possessed the concentration to keep all these words in play for the entire performance? ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

He loves to violate the fourth rhyme in a quatrain, then rhyme the next couplet with the offending word. Future is now 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

A musclehead made eloquent with rhyming lyrics, as he punches sides of beef in a meat locker? A Hit in Germany, a ‘Rocky’ Musical Aims at Broadway 2012-12-05T17:01:32Z

Communicating in rough insults and rhyming slang, these artful codgers are, for a time, fun to watch. ‘King of Thieves’ Review: Michael Caine Leads a Crew of Artful Codgers 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

The exhibit, on view through Nov. 11, includes Colbert book drafts, sketches by illustrator Paul Hildebrand, two Bud Light Lime bottles, a crumpled paper bag, a turkey sandwich receipt and a rhyming dictionary. Philly library features Colbert with Joyce, Sendak 2012-07-31T09:16:04Z

A humbling element of the process is that she had to learn how to tap dance from square one, practicing with a nursery rhyme tap video one of the show’s choreographers, Ayodele Casel, sent her. Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Second, while the songs in a show traditionally use rhyme, the dialogue spoken between the songs doesn’t. ArtsBeat: In Praise of a Bernstein Flop And Other Answers to Your Musicals Questions 2010-12-07T22:19:00Z

Let’s bring back meter, rhyme, alliteration, poetic form. Feminists, Poetic Pretensions and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

His rhymes speak to the deep pain of the fatherless generation. Raekwon opens up about life before and with the Wu-Tang Clan 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

The most pervasive forms of local advertising often feel like this—like nursery rhymes or urban legends, or something implanted in your most tender consciousness by a social version of natural law. Stepping Into the Uncanny, Unsettling World of Shen Yun 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

On that note, it was rough, but it's much easier than writing a rhyme. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

After striking a giddy chord in downtown audiences, with a sold-out run in Greenwich Village, this rapping romp is angling for larger crowds through its irreverent displays of rhyming wit. How chill can Broadway get? Lin-Manuel Miranda and company throw down some ‘Freestyle Love’ to find out. 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Throughout his career, Mr. Smith often wrote in a rigorously classical style, using the traditional forms of meter and rhyme that many other 20th-century poets deemed outmoded. William Jay Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 97 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

If it weren’t enough that Miranda wrote enough rhymes to fill a phone book, he gives each of those men their own styles. The emotional hooks of 'Hamilton': Why the soundtrack makes me cry every single time 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

He is a snoozy lyricist, almost wholly uninterested in narrative, complexity or even the basic tenets of rhyme. On 6ix9ine’s ‘Dummy Boy,’ a Rap Outlaw Learns to Compromise 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

A slightly revised “How About You” rhymes “I like New York in Jan” with “I am a Gershwin fan” and exalts “Ben Bernanke’s looks.” Music Review: Gotham States of Mind In All of Their Tempos 2011-01-06T21:24:27Z

Of course, "teeth" and "Keith" rhyme, so you can imagine the taunts. Stammering: lost for words 2011-01-09T20:29:00Z

On his Grammy Award-winning 2016 album, “Coloring Book,” Chance the Rapper kicked his Xanax habit in rhyme: “Last year, got addicted to Xans/Started forgetting my name and started missing my chance.” Soft, smooth and steady: How Xanax turned American music into pill-pop 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z

Sondheim spent the next 60-plus years grumbling about the quality of his “West Side Story” lyrics: the unintelligible passages, the too-clever-by-half internal rhymes. 20 Stephen Sondheim Songs to Listen to Right Now 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

You can hear rhymed triplets pushing against the beat in the music of Public Enemy, Das EFX, Three 6 Mafia, Bone Thugs N Harmony, even MC Hammer’s “Addams Groove.” Migos-mania: How the Atlanta rap trio mastered the sound of silence 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

As soon as she hangs up, she begins to melt down, flashing back to the mortifying episode, decades before, when as an overly confident 11-year-old, she attempted a nursery rhyme as a drama class monologue. Review: One Belfast Landmark Inspires Five Irish Monologues 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

It’s a lovely reminder that for all his much-touted cleverness, Mr. Sondheim is great not because he’s a wizard with rhyme, rhythm and key changes. | 'Sondheim on Sondheim': Barbara Cook and Vanessa Williams at Studio 54 2010-04-23T02:50:00Z

They pulse with internal rhymes and reveal ever more detail each time you listen to them. Patriotism on Broadway 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Their exuberantly expressive yet intricately lyrical performances of the film’s rhyming text are unlike any in this year’s Oscar scramble. The Oscar Whiteness Machine 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

“The Ballad of Edward Grue,” for example, is the woeful story told in rhyme of a man who likes to wander the woods “dressed as a deer.” A heavy toll of Puppet Death 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Inspired by Southern rappers like Three 6 Mafia, UGK and 8ball & MJG, Jelly Roll started writing rhymes of his own, getting serious about pursuing music after learning that he had a daughter, now age 15. Meet Jelly Roll, the Rapper Turned Country Singer Rousing Nashville 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

He tests out his rhymes while he's selling his saris. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

She developed a devoted group of readers who adored her and were drawn to her poems, which featured accessible rhymes and themes of cultivating love, conquering injustice and speaking out of silence. Maya Angelou, writer and poet, dies at age 86

This District native’s crisp, uncluttered rhymes tend to obey the laws of gravity, but his ambition leans toward something more cosmic. Review | With the DMV nightlife on pause, these area musicians want you to press play 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

But how would you make it more accessible and still keep in mind “meter, rhyme, rhythm, metaphor” and more? Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

I just don’t recall what, if anything, I had in mind, except for a name that would belong to a comic book character, or a character in nursery rhyme. A rare interview with Don DeLillo, one of the titans of American fiction 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

We thought that instead of just reporting on the general content of this fictional work, it might be fun to try writing an opening chorus in rhyming German that had the proper accents. A Literary Couple Grapple With Bach and His God 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

They exalted everyday life — which I intuited early on was always going to be messy — by giving it a rhythm and rhyme that you could belt, wail and dance to. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

The entire special, dialogue and narration, is told in rhyming couplets, in the style of "The Night Before Christmas," which is soothing one minute and irritating the next. TV review: 'How Murray Saved Christmas' skews older 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

The rhymes are spry and wry: “Y’all know Harlem belong to me/I don’t want it, it’s too gentrified/I’m from the era of genocide, bodies are unidentified, alibis are memorized.” Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

They scan like diary entries, or meditations on readiness during a time of emergency, and don’t necessarily rhyme; they use oblique harmonies and repetitions. New Music: Mavis Staples and Andy Bey Release New Albums 2013-06-24T22:22:10Z

“This is a fickle town, no rhyme or reason to it,” he said of Hollywood in 1979. Frederic Forrest, 86, Dies; Actor Known for ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘The Rose’ 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z

The experts also say that to help children learn the alphabet, letter sounds, rhyming, and simple printing, parents can use home-designed or commercially available programs. Can babies read? 2012-09-12T16:08:00Z

But, for myself and Pete, they marked Bruce at his apex, a jumble of loose, jazzy riffs and poetic lyrics colored with intricate rhymes. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

“There’s something about working with people who are young and experienced is very interesting — but there’s zero rhyme or reason to it.” Jonah Hill may have abandoned comedy, but “Mid90s” wouldn’t exist without “Superbad” 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

I have a seven-year-old son and have loved reading him stories that use rhyme such as Giraffes Can't Dance, The Snail and The Whale, The Perfect Nest and Mum In A Million. Michaela Strachan's top 10 animal encounters 2013-02-15T09:00:00Z

He rhymes about some of the same issues better-known African-American rappers do, but there is an added element of reservation life. Fighting the power and speaking for the earth: The explosion of Native American hip-hop 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

By the way, much of the second act is rendered in a stream of incantatory rhyme that suggests rap music has been around a lot longer than we think. London Theater Journal: Two Wars, With Song and Sentiment 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

Using shadow puppets, the troupe, making just one appearance this weekend, presents the familiar tales and rhymes with humorous and unusual twists. Spare Times: For Children, March 23-29 2012-03-22T22:00:09Z

After looking around while taking a walk one day in California, she wrote a rhymed verse about the shapes of hills. Family visits to Cuba inspired girl to become a poet 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

Every year, my mother would write a rhyming poem to commemorate my birthday. The Battle Hymn of the Papier-Mâché Mother 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

And that’s exactly what Titus would do: he’d think the only thing you need to write a song is a rhyming dictionary. 'Kimmy Schmidt' composer Jeff Richmond on the show's viral-friendly songs 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

The infatuated Valoroso — now speaking in rhyme — points out that a river runs by the castle: Review | What we all could use right now: Tales of magic, wonder and the triumph of goodness 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

Helpfully, wedding magazines and websites are on hand to offer a variety of rhymes to use. Marrying couples increasingly wrap requests for money in bad poetry 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

To paraphrase a quip about history often attributed to Mark Twain, geological events don’t repeat themselves but they often rhyme. How Earth’s tumultuous history gave the Mid-Atlantic its beloved destinations 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

But listen closely and you can hear, beneath the tough-guy repartee of Hart’s insolently rhymed lyrics, the arrhythmic beating of a broken heart. | 'Ten Cents a Dance': Music, Memories and Regret 2011-08-15T22:20:09Z

Each of these rhyming verse poems is infused, as the author’s note indicates, with a musical style central to Hendrix’s repertoire — from blues and early R&B to the psychedelic rock he would revolutionize. Sonic Sensations: Picture Books About Nina Simone and Jimi Hendrix 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

She also broke up several songs with spoken-word interludes, which had the earmarks of fables, twisted bedtime stories or nursery rhymes for grownups. Laurie Anderson 9/11 concert at Park West revisited 2013-09-11T21:15:00Z

This rhyming picture book begins with a typical premise. But I Wanted a Puppy! 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

Sometimes the picture would be an illustration of the rhyme, and sometimes it would be a little different. Roz Chast talks about her new children’s book, ‘Around the Clock” 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Eliot in the press of her sentences, the crisp progress of her rhyming couplets. In ‘Three Poems,’ Hannah Sullivan Writes Beautifully and Covers a Lot of Ground 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Particularly noteworthy is the way that Yee dramatically changes his color scheme and uses a rhyming text to create the book-within-the-book that Mouse reads to Mole in the last chapter. Tricky treats for young readers 2011-10-15T05:30:47Z

When Fitzgerald enters, listeners are treated to a reworked nursery rhyme that asks little of them other than to sit back and enjoy. Behind Ella Fitzgerald’s flirtation with reefer songs 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z

It was just, I'm going to write a rhyme. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

There’s also about eight composition notebooks full of handwritten rhymes, with six blanks stashed under the coffee table. Seattle’s Porter Ray makes official debut with ‘Watercolor’ 2017-03-03T05:00:00Z

"Chi-Raq" features all sorts of storytelling methods, from direct-address to the camera by a narrator, to rhyming verse spoken by various characters caught up in the sex strike at the movie's core. Break down of ‘Chi-Raq’ trailer: locations, stars and plot 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Rather, she seems to begin with themes and ideas that fall into a kind of rhyming pattern and then make them do somersaults. Review: In ‘Hurricane Diane,’ the Perfect Storm Hits Suburbia 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

It's like the guy is breaking the laws of gravity with what he can rhyme - rhyming "Paris" and "I'm Just Saying'"? Poll: Who's best? Jay-Z or Kanye West 2012-05-18T11:35:20Z

A chorus of spirits mocked him for his “dogrel rhymes” and prodded two fairies to “pinch him for his crimes” in music that walked a blissful line between gentle joking and intense needling. Review: Purcell’s Elaborate Scores, Elegantly Executed at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Whenever Goonew, a fellow Maryland rapper, rhymes this way, he floats outside of time like a wraith. Perspective | Teen rappers Xanman and YungManny master the art of getting ahead of yourself 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z

It consisted of rhymed messages sequentially staked on the right side of the road, all ending with the advertiser’s name, “Burma-Shave.” Rising design star: Naz Sahin 2012-05-17T21:42:00Z

While dealers selling paintings are reasonably well grouped, those who handle objects are scattered without rhyme or reason. Maastricht Signals an Art Market on the Rebound 2010-03-19T15:25:00Z

He groaned when someone requested his signature nursery rhymes. With old dirty nursery rhymes and a new series, Andrew Dice Clay returns 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

He’s still prone to using extreme voices to get his feelings across, and he puts rhyme scheme above all else, interrupting thoughts, lines and even words in the process. Hip-Hop Changes. Eminem Doesn’t. 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Nursery rhymes have never been put to better or macabre effect. Gregg Olsen's top 10 deadly reads 2012-11-15T12:39:02Z

But unlike in the childhood nursery rhyme, the artist has put his shattered figures back together again. In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

Their wit and rhyming facility sometimes echo Cole Porter. Review: In One-Woman Show, Dillie Keane Is Silly With a Purpose 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Though he’s out for vengeance, his stuttering, speaking in rhyme and wearing a nylon blue tank top for much of the film hardly helps conveying any sense of menace. 12 Hours Watching John McClane: The Diary of a Die Hard Marathoner 2013-02-14T20:44:04Z

Music president Pusha is happy for you and is gonna let you finish, but he sticks to his a-hole offensive after West pushed him to write crueler rhymes in the studio. 10 of Kanye West's Most Inspired Collaborations 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

That hand is adorned with a piece of jewelry in the shape of a spotted disc, which rhymes with her hoop earring and the arches of her eyebrows. Review | Glamour, gossip, sex, scandal: Man Ray’s portraits captured Paris between the wars 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

Unlike his poetry to date, these are formally very loose, gently line-ended but without anything much in the way of rhyme, metre or the other prosodic tools poets often bring to bear on their poems. Poetically speaking at the Hay festival 2010-06-02T13:07:00Z

This is described as a fun filled rhyming story and a perfect introduction to learning about the weather! Family reviews: a selection 2012-11-18T12:00:00Z

Both statues were erected recently, models for what should be a campaign to bring rhyme to the rails. Stations and poets: Poetry in Motion 2010-12-28T00:01:00Z

Young Shawn felt gravity working on him, “like a planet pulled into orbit by a star”: he went home that night and started writing his own rhymes in a notebook and studying the dictionary. Books of The Times: The Street Poet Jay-Z Shows His Softer Side, in a Memoir 2010-11-22T18:28:00Z

So when disaster strikes they may feel obligated respond to enormity with rhyming couplets – or, like action star John Cena, a wish that the superhero he plays on TV were real. Dear Hollywood: In times of international crisis, speechlessness is always preferable to stupidity 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z

The stories, said Wright, are often in rhyme. Georgian 'erotic pamphlet' collection goes on display 2010-04-06T10:56:00Z

In Week 1171 we asked for song tailgaters: You choose a line from a song, then follow it with your own, rhyming line. Style Invitational: Get lucky with a 13-(Scrabble) point neologism 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Notice in the original that “stream” and “dream” rhyme. Mary Amato weaves stories and songwriting together in Lucy McGee series 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Danger Mouse and I liked it a lot, and it rhymed perfectly. Michael Kiwanuka Felt ‘One Step Away.’ Now He Has a Seat at the Table. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

We make up rhymes and high-fives and mini dance routines. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Smoothness isn't his forte, but juxtaposing seemingly disparate sounds--jarring rhymes against mellow instrumentals--mitigates gruffness and injects Southern hip-hop into the fold. Pitchfork day 3: Off to a mellow start 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

While known for gritty lyrics and rapid, aggressive rhyme delivery, Meek Mill expands his repertoire this time around. Meek Mill’s ‘Expensive Pain’ comes with a heavy cost 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

But the work is filled with rhyme and wordplay, the humor coming from Icarus’s dotty grandmother, not to mention a talented pet cow with a foul mouth. Marcus Gardley’s ‘The Box: A Black Comedy’ Comes to Brooklyn 2014-04-13T21:56:13Z

It’s remarkable how many clichés you’re willing to forgive when they’re tumbled together in a nonstop rap rant, delivered by a performer like Mr. Sax, who gets high on his own delirious rhymes. Theater Review: ‘Venice,’ by Eric Rosen and Matt Sax, Teems With Action 2013-06-14T03:18:01Z

But then my idiot editor, Tom the Butcher, pointed out that “Bowl-a-Rama” also rhymes with “pajama.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: These are desperate times for us humorists 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

I'm looking for something that rhymes with 'died' for you, my darling sixth wife. Mary Poppins and Henry the Eighth by Nick Hornby 2012-07-26T10:24:47Z

That charmer, along with Buffett hits like “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” and “License to Chill,” form the show’s spine and its ethos, in which rhymes are approximate and sophistication is suspect. Review: ‘Escape to Margaritaville,’ Where Work Is a Dirty Word 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

If only for the obvious fun he’s having making up rhymes and poking fun at himself, Chance would be a gem of an entertainer. Album review: Chance the Rapper, 'Acid Rap' 2013-05-10T18:44:00Z

I like how the story is written in rhyme and based on facts. Itchy Itch Itch by Mara Bergman and Emily Bolam - review 2012-06-24T11:00:00Z

“Flutter” also incorporates lullabies and rhymes from the Chippewa, Chinese and British cultures. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

It is not easy to translate lyrics into another language while hewing to the original meaning of the words and maintaining the rhyme patterns. Susan Stroman’s ‘The Merry Widow’ at the Met 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

The series’s title rhymes with “The View,” for a reason: to associate itself with that show’s popularity. The Tv Watch: Celebrity Chefs on ?The Chew? on ABC 2011-10-02T22:01:29Z

"Nursery rhymes and traditional songs were often used to inform and educate, and faced squarely up to subjects like death, ill-health and misfortune – and I've always found them utterly compelling." Why Cerys Matthews wants to teach the world to sing 2013-06-01T05:59:01Z

Get up there and sing a nursery rhyme; they'll pay £100 to come and see you. Amy and me 2012-06-25T19:00:04Z

Published in 2005, it told the rhyming story of a baby-boy llama upset when his mother delays bringing a nighttime glass of water. Anna Dewdney Dies; Author of ‘Llama Llama’ Books Was 50 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Elliott once explained that their first show, in Boston, was called “Matinee with Bob and Ray,” because of the preference in those days for catchy rhyming titles. Bob Elliott, one half of a crack team of pop-culture satirists, dies at 92 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

He got it all: the rhyme sequence, the high nobility of the language and the silliness of some of the text. How we made: Ivan Fischer and Tom Randle on ENO's The Magic Flute 2012-10-08T17:51:31Z

Loesser’s ease with rhymed everyday speech, including the most arcane slang, was second to none. Music Review: Frank Loesser Songs at the New York Philharmonic 2012-03-27T22:52:16Z

Crooked Little Sun is faster and thrashier, but these things are clearly relative, while We Lived is the quiet-loud one that rhymes "pretend" with "make amends". New band of the day ? No 980: Francesqa 2011-03-07T17:18:28Z

The use of polysyllabic rhyme in verse usually signals comedy but not here, or not quite. Poem of the week: Eros Turannos by Edwin Arlington Robinson 2010-05-03T10:13:00Z

He's not afraid to rap about his past mistakes, supplying inspirational rhymes filled with Christian values backed by well-produced secular hip-hop beats. Review: Gospel rapper Lecrae's new album is solid 2012-09-04T17:31:05Z

Besides cutting the text of the play considerably, Wilder wrote new rhymed lyrics for arias and ensembles. Two-Course Feast of Stage and Song 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z

"To say, this person is talking rapidly in rhyme so obviously there's a connection to southern blues, I think that's really facile," Neff says. Flow like the river: Big K.R.I.T. and Mississippi's flood of hip-hop 2013-03-27T10:43:27Z

That left space for his thoughtful rhymes, which grapple with stardom, urban struggles and sometimes apocalyptic visions. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z

It conjures comedic pathos and candor through the power of its pictorial compositions, the alternation of angles and rhythms of editing, and the repetition of actions in a sort of dramatic rhyme. What to Stream: A Rediscovered Short by—and Starring—Chantal Akerman 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z

Certainly not the Americanised travesty that rhymes with "tango", or even the English approximation that makes him sound like the brother of Yorkshire fast bowler, Darren. Vincent in Brixton – review 2013-06-12T16:42:47Z

Or the gorgeous poem “Ash,” which is as scary and wise as an old nursery rhyme: In Her New Work, a Public Poet Balances the Personal and Political 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

And the production ends not with a triumphant declaration, but the ellipsis of an incomplete rhyme. Review: James McAvoy’s Rapping Cyrano Dazzles With Words 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

Would it be stretching a point to suggest that rap songs’ fusillades of rhyme also owe something to Gilbert? Music Review: ‘W. S. Gilbert and Broadway He Inspired’ at 92nd Street Y 2013-01-13T21:05:53Z

The title track is torpid rhythmic goth that includes references to asylums and rhymes "crawling on your knees" with "disease", presumably as in: dis-ease, a discomfiture with the quotidian drag that is existence. New band of the day (Rough Days for Diamond Trade No 1,473) 2013-03-18T17:00:00Z

Placing an unreasonable truth value on a set of words perhaps based on actual experience that also happen to rhyme and have narrative coherence and are presented in an entertaining manner — that’s a fool’s game. 7 Songs We Nearly Missed in 2022 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

The play provides a fun opportunity for comparing new verses with some of Shakespeare's famous rhymes, or, if that's too rigorous, simply enjoying this strangely familiar, yet new comedy. Liar tricks friends, lovers in 'Double Falsehood' 2011-03-23T02:29:08Z

Each verse is four short lines, rhyming AA/BB, with four accented syllables in each line, as in Matt’s example above as well as the original. Style Invitational Week 1372: Trash talk, 1880-style 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Soon he was incorporating Houston’s woozy moods and the intricate double-time rhyme patterns of the Midwest. ASAP Yams, Partner to Hip-Hop’s ASAP Rocky 2013-01-25T13:00:00Z

And when the band gets loud, it does so with precision, as David Pajo's guitar breaks the crush with spindly upper-register notes that sound like a nursery rhyme gone wrong. FYF Fest 2014: Angel Olsen smolders while fans bake in lines 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Like Ms. Bonds and the Bengsons, he knows the redemptive joy of singing your sorrows and finding the rhymes in a world without reason. Review: Songs Say What a Family Can’t in ‘Sundown, Yellow Moon’ 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

Growing up, I was simply made to memorize the names of his ships, and the helpful rhyme, “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Coyotes, the Ultimate American Tricksters 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

Rappers spend lots of time on their rhymes, and producers spend lots of time on their beats, but you’d be surprised how often those two practices don’t neatly intersect. Review: Mac Miller Releases His First Major-Label Album, “GO:OD AM” 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

“For years we’ve been doing the nursery rhymes with the kids, and it’s just so nice to bring them alive for them now.” Storybook Land, Family-Run Amusement Park, Endures 2012-06-28T22:41:49Z

So Pete is sipping from his favorite cup, and you don’t see in the rhyme that he’s created this complete chaos around himself in the kitchen. Roz Chast talks about her new children’s book, ‘Around the Clock” 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

He's a rapper who was originally a chef, so loads of his rhymes are about detailed cooking instructions. DJ Yoda Q&A 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z

To be block-headed and brilliantly funny in rhyming couplets requires both verbal and psychological acuity of a rare order. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

The rhyming couplets and video-plays of Mary Reid Kelley, with their daft costumes and makeup, are as much performances as stories on film. How performance art took over 2012-07-03T17:30:01Z

Her family has been a great support and inspiration, she says, particularly Malcolm who does a first reading of her new work in a “Dylan Thomas-y voice” to check that the rhymes work. Real life ugly beasts inspire new book by 'Gruffalo' author Donaldson 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

It rhymes and is very funny so I will definitely be saving it for her when she is a bit older. Family reviews: a selection 2012-12-01T12:00:00Z

The analogy I like to draw is to the nursery rhymes of the nineteenth century, which covered all these intricate political situations and were the satire of their day. The Crazy History of “Star Wars” 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

"The poems are made by combining all user tweets and finding rhymes between them, creating curious results and sometimes surreal," the center explains, via a Web translator. Poetweet: A website that turns your tweets into poetry 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

That feeling of the uncanny—the universe rhyming in a minor key, the recurring bad dream—is the undercurrent of almost all of Stevie Smith’s poems, although a few of them are festooned by joy. The Uneasy Verse of Stevie Smith 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

While the rhymes have to be valid, the meter can be off, as in the example above by Gene Weingarten, who as a passionate New York Giants fan is passionately angry at Jason Pierre-Paul. Style Invitational: ’Hew ready? Verse for the rhythm-deaf 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

There are giant, organic pillars, like stalagmites or termite mounds, a visual or conceptual rhyme to the towers built outside. Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow ? review 2010-10-13T20:50:00Z

But I know if I go back to that corner, I’ll get shot, or get robbed, in a box to make me fade away,” he rhymes. Meek Mill’s ‘Expensive Pain’ comes with a heavy cost 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Theater 'Demon Dreams' Playwright Tommy Smith joins traditional Japanese storytelling with hip-hop in this West Coast premiere, depicting immortals and demons that gather to "tell stories and spit rhymes" about the human race. Neil Young, Veterans Day parade and 12 other things to do this week 2012-11-05T19:21:36Z

I don't sound good when I rhyme like that. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Ms. Messing, an Emmy winner for “Will & Grace” who has performed Off Broadway, described plumbing Mr. Wittman’s rhyming dictionary for her character’s work as a lyricist. Television: ?Smash? on NBC, About Broadway, With Katharine McPhee 2012-01-19T17:14:32Z

As those rhymes in Burnham's Catholic Rap imply, he's about more than virtuosity. Bo Burnham 2010-08-11T20:30:00Z

There is nothing about the skills required to be an M.C. that makes it impossible for white women to rhyme. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z

This is performed by two members of Supergrass and was signed off by Nintendo after Wright wrote to the Japanese company describing the game's music as "nursery rhymes to a generation". Edgar Wright: why the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack matters as much as the movie 2010-08-18T15:47:00Z

My mom also recalls such rhyming answers to the whodunit question as “He who smelt it dealt it” and “He who denied it supplied it.” Let it rip! When fart jokes were comedy’s last taboo 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Time and time again he keeps his rhyming syllables close: “It was all for the ends, ends for the rims, rims for the Benz, Benz full of skins.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z

It’s the hurdle that trips up most stalwarts who are rhyming over outmoded dubstep or trap beats in a feeble effort to stay current. How does a 45-year-old rapper stay relevant in a genre that feeds off youth? 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

Scott, who first participated in poetry slams as a teenager in Washington, sets his rhymes and vignettes in a Brooklyn neighborhood undergoing gentrification. Perspective | On Broadway, ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ and ‘Lackawanna Blues’ deliver stories that defy stereotypes 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

The play “As You Like It” is often cited as the source of the phrase “without rhyme or reason,” but that actually appeared in print decades before Shakespeare wrote. Shakespeare Didn’t Actually Write That 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

The horizontal clapboards of a house in “Clarkville, Colorado,” 1972, rhymes with the vast grasslands and sky that dominate the picture, and with the thin, faintly perceptible overhead wires high above. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Children leaving kindergarten respond to Dr. Seuss’s colorful drawings and silly rhymes. Perspective | How Dr. Seuss’s ‘Oh, the Places You’ll Go’ became a graduation-gift cliche 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

It’s an epic boast battle that – with bonkers rhymes – pits her bits against a rival’s. Awkwafina: ‘I was just rapping about my genitalia – not making a feminist message’ 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

“Dark Lane” shows Drake songs at various developmental points — full-fledged experiments in a range of regional and microscene styles, half-cooked ideas from old projects, classicist exercises, formal rhymes, informal rhymes. Drake Was Isolated (at the Top) Way Before Quarantine 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

His delivery can feel staccato, and so can his lyrics, which on songs like “Part of the Plan” tend toward the non sequitur, rhyming syllables tacked onto jumbled thoughts. Rod Wave and Lil Tjay, Two Brands of Sing-Rap With Different Bite 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

They’re called tailgaters: You choose a line from a famous poem, then write a second, rhyming line yourself. Style Invitational Week 1329: Shakespeare + Thee: A tailgater contest 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

Harper suspects it's no coincidence that the word rhymes with moo. LeBron James Returns to Cleveland with Miami: Why Fans Boo 2010-12-14T05:15:00Z

There have been moments when, for me, its effervescence has failed to rhyme with the despondency of these days. To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York City 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Feminine endings are a recurrent characteristic of its music, and while there's no direct rhyme, faint echoes soften the edges of words like "anaesthetic", "spreadsheets", "credit". Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z

Ohashi accepted her best play trophy by giving her remarks in rhyme. Alex Morgan, US women’s soccer team honored at The ESPYS 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

There was pain behind those unrepeatable rhymes, though. Why I prayed for my testicles 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

His subsequent rhymes about access visits are some of the most gripping here. Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) ? review 2010-11-19T12:35:00Z

The book reflects an inherited appreciation of variety: each chapter features a different genre – from nursery rhymes to Americana – and includes not only lyrics but also musical scores. Why Cerys Matthews wants to teach the world to sing 2013-06-01T05:59:01Z

To even notice what’s going out there — I’m trying to make these words stop popping up in my head, I’m trying to make them rhyme. Lil Wayne’s Album Is Stalled. His Opinions Are Still Flowing. 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Across 10 easy-breezy tracks, this Upper Marlboro native raps in sighs and whispers so cool you can practically feel the temperature drop with each subsequent rhyme. Perspective | The best DMV rap songs and albums of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Having the best rhymes, the best clothes, the best sex – these things are closely connected, it seems. Readers recommend: songs about showing off ? the results 2011-02-24T16:38:51Z

Scrawling the verses on postcards, he’d write a rhyme about an animal, leaving the last word — the name of the species — blank. Spare Times for Children for March 21-27 2014-03-21T02:54:37Z

Through the decades, the group has applied its knack for tunes and rhymes to, among many other things, science, history, the music business, romance and teaching letters and numbers. New Year’s Eve 2017: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Finn’s scattershot lyrics don’t help: He lurches at rhymes regardless of fit, as if at a sample sale where they might run out. Review: ‘The Royal Family of Broadway,’ This Time in Song 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

The monster’s name is Larry, and his deal, we learn from a nursery rhyme in a spontaneously manifesting e-book, is that he wants a friend. ‘Come Play’ Review: Alexa, Find Me a Derivative Thriller 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

My son watched most of the show on his knees, and laughed uproariously when Corcoran and Lindsay balanced on inflatable steppingstones, repeating a rhyming song. ‘Dot & Ziggy’ hits the spot for young audiences 2013-01-23T20:27:52Z

The rapper’s most famous storytelling rhyme involves him having a conversation with the devil — a play about fighting his own temptations. DMX: Hear 10 Essential Songs 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

Chris took all his advice from nursery rhymes: kiss the girls and make them cry. The Bachelor Recap: A Unicorn, A Tiny Pony, and Ben Higgins 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

They fit this Manhattan musician and self-proclaimed “purple panther” well: his rhymes are explosive, unfussy and untethered to the trends of some of his more grandiose peers. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

He’s a classicist, a thrilling New York rapper in the old-fashioned way, effortlessly stacking internal rhymes while giving off charisma with just a whiff of menace. ArtsBeat Blog: Touring the Fringes, the Final Hours of CMJ 2011-10-23T21:44:53Z

I think that the New Critical approach taken by British critic Christopher Ricks — breaking down each Dylan song according to conventional matrices such as rhyming and alliteration and assonance — is a bit reductionist and naive. Bob Dylan’s prophecy: The kryptonite we need against Trumpism 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

But I always felt that the text’s rhythms and rhymes have a hint of the foreign about them; as a child I remember thinking they must have been written in another language, maybe French. Ludwig Bemelmans’s Madeline Celebrates a Milestone 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The best of them is the candid “Kantate,” in which Ms. Lassnig gamely recounts her life story in singsong rhyme while posing as, among other things, a punk rocker and the Statue of Liberty. Art Review: ‘Maria Lassnig’ Celebrates the Artist at MoMA PS1 2014-03-27T21:52:41Z

Rossetti likes to place some of her rhymes widely apart, and the device works particularly well in this passage, where "distance" picks up "resistance" – a whole nine lines later. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z

A column that ran this year in “El País” included concerns that she had “pulled a ‘Miley Cyrus,’” going from lyrical Lorca allusions to simplistic, dirty rhymes and oversharing on social media. Rosalía Reserves the Right to Transform 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

I don’t need total harmony, rhyme and reason. Colorado Student Protests And The Clanging Internet 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

It's a whole other thing to adapt a singer's voice and style to nursery rhymes. Adam Levine does a great Michael Jackson impression on 'Tonight Show' 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

And since words in aggregate have at least some rhyme and rhythm, which lines on the page accentuate, any words composed in lines are poetry. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Jester, troubadour, agent provocateur, Serge Gainsbourg rhymed his way through life in a fog of Gitanes smoke, making music of every genre. Time Stands Still in Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris Lair 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z

In the first three months it was open, the Broad — rhymes with “load” — drew more than a quarter million people. Los Angeles’ hottest ticket? The new Broad art museum 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Again, it’s a kind of rhyme with the previous year, but there’s something about that music — it’s kind of the perfect piece. Noah Hawley Isn’t Done with ‘Fargo’ 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

The poetry seems to perform hypnosis, the found rhymes and assonance and anaphora enacting an enchantment, a bewitchery; it seems to be giving subconscious advice. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hansen said he tried not to put his thumb on the scale too much, though he was sorry to see Mr. Malkmus lose a lyric that rhymed “Vietnam” with “lip balm.” Music: Together Again for the First Time 2011-08-18T18:29:50Z

Even as the group moved in a more melodic direction through the 2010s, Takeoff remained resolute in his commitment to innovative rhyme patterns. How Takeoff and the Migos Flow Changed Atlanta Rap 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

It seems fitting, too, that she chose to wield rhyme and meter, the most conservative of poetic devices, in the service of ideological radicalism — an act of subversion if ever there was one. Naomi Replansky, Poet of Hopeful Struggle, Dies at 104 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

For all their rhymes about competition Beastie Boys are now playing their own game alone. Critics? Choice: New Cds: The Droll, Buzzing Grandpas of Rap 2011-05-02T19:51:31Z

Still got the old rhyming magic, Mr Van Winkle. Dancing on Ice sharpens its Ice Pick 2011-01-31T11:25:00Z

And back and forth it goes while Jay rhymes about the lifestyles of the rich, the famous and the racially profiled. Review | Did Beyoncé and Jay-Z save their marriage by becoming each other’s favorite rapper? 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Then he spits rhymes about beef jerky, Slim Jims, lemons, and limes. Phife Dawg: Farewell to the Five-Foot Assassin With the Roughneck Business 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Wright’s extraordinary humility doesn’t rhyme with his prominence in the poetry world. Charles Wright, former U-Va. professor and author, is named new U.S. poet laureate

I asked myself, what made me decide to rhyme this word with that word? Angie Thomas Lets Hip-Hop Speak in Her New Novel, ‘On the Come Up’ 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Painters, sculptors, poets, composers, photographers, filmmakers and choreographers alike ventured into this new territory, struggling to sever Western art’s age-old link with legible images, narrative logic, harmonic structure and rhyme. Art Review: ‘Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925,’ at MoMA 2012-12-20T22:03:36Z

Right now, he said, the sheriffs "can go to the FBI or the U.S. marshals — but there's no rhyme or reason." Officials map out strategy to catch fugitives 2012-01-13T05:15:00Z

Mr. Elrod’s inspired performance is the engine that drives the plot forward at an increasingly breathless pace, even as Mr. Ives’s deftly turned rhymes maintain the reliable rhythms of a minuet. Theater Review: ‘The Heir Apparent,’ by Way of David Ives 2014-04-10T02:00:01Z

As soon as you put speech in rhyming couplets, there’s a ‘take.’ Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z

He said he named Wednesday after a line in the nursery rhyme “Monday’s Child,” which noted that “Wednesday’s child is full of woe.” Lisa Loring, Wednesday Addams in ‘The Addams Family,’ Dies at 64 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

With sing-song rhyme, random capitalization and phrases like "fealty" and "Imbue Ascription," she expressed wistful sadness that she had not been Putin's mother: "born too late . . . I would have loved you so." What’s with all the viral poems? Why we turn to verse in a time of war 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

In hologram or the flesh, Mr Modi is a brilliant public speaker, capable of seemingly endless Hindi epithet and rhyme. Witness to a landslide 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Written in rhymes, each book starts with a simple life problem and proceeds to solve it, with lessons learned along the way. Anna Dewdney Dies; Author of ‘Llama Llama’ Books Was 50 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

I think poetry should scan and rhyme when possible, and be short and memorable. From the archive, 11 October 1972: Betjeman won't let Poet Laureate role change him 2012-10-11T06:30:00Z

Gucci Mane and others — he was obstinate in his reliance on character, avoiding punch lines and complex rhyme in favor of sheer urgency and tons of vocal charisma. New Music From Earth, Yob and Jeezy 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

And while his rhymes are nimble but cluttered, he’s inherited Cam’ron’s attitude, a certainty that’s dyed in the wool, even on purposely gooey songs like “Heart Attack” and “Perfect Day.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-18T23:45:23Z

One of Philadelphia’s brightest new hip-hop stars, this 28-year-old artist comes from a city steeped in a battle rap tradition that rewards sharp rhymes and quick wit, but he is just as nimble with melody. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

There the poem ends with a whimper, the rhyme incomplete. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Forty-seven songs; more than 20,000 words; fast-paced lyrics, abundant wordplay, complex rhyming patterns, plus allusions not only to hip-hop and musical theater but also to arcane aspects of early American history. They Translated ‘Hamilton’ Into German. Was It Easy? Nein. 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

A rigorous poetic form that usually consists of a series of couplets laced together by a precise rhyme scheme, ghazals originated in Persia and spread to India and Pakistan around the 15th century. Indian singer stretches tradition — and then some 2013-04-18T21:57:06Z

Her gift with a swift comeback rhyme is what’s kept her afloat in a world that threatens to drown her. Theater Review: ?Hurt Village,? by Katori Hall 2012-02-28T03:00:00Z

My son rhymes and my daughter rhymes too. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

They move with the stilted stage cadence of a slam poem, with awkward breaks, including some after verbs and prepositions, just to hammer home the wordplay and rhyme. Review: ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ Preaches to the Choir 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Without the rhyme on the last syllable, it translates as: "She had lost control of her facial features/ She was probably thinking of her tits." What's German for funny? 2012-02-12T20:00:13Z

The English lyrics to Malzieu's unnecessary songs are burdened with stretched rhymes and trite images. 'Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart' beats with imagination 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

Was there ever a more brilliant union of west coast vibes with east coast urbanity than in the rhyming of "sunlight" with "Fulbright"? My favourite album: Graceland by Paul Simon 2011-08-15T12:35:11Z

And in the track that follows, “When You’re Here,” he crafts poetic verses filled with emotion and interior rhymes that surely would impress even Bob Dylan himself: John Fullbright closes Levitt Pavilion Pasadena series Aug. 23 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

That’s where he is when he raps the prologue to the play, rhyming fiercely about “an entire generation of black men who were never allowed to be.” Review: Living, and Dying, While Black in ‘Scraps’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

With dialogue so heavy on rhyming slang he comes across like a pearly king, Cheadle's wretched twang makes his scenes genuinely unwatchable. One Day: accent-uate the positive 2011-08-17T10:12:00Z

At one point, he rhymes inconsequential and existential. New band of the day ? No 1,074: Alphabet Saints 2011-08-01T15:47:00Z

Named after his wife, he dropped the "e" because it was better for rhyming. French schoolgirl character 'Madeline' focus of New York exhibit 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Yet, Nightingale concludes, "Hair takes glee in rambling dialogue, formlessness, intellectual sloppiness and an absence of rhyme." What to say about ... Hair 2010-04-15T16:10:00Z

But throughout the show, Ohgeesy proved himself to be the leader of this pack, with every smirking, anesthetized rhyme that fell from his mouth radiating a stealth joy. Review | For Shoreline Mafia, the only thing better than sex and drugs is rapping about sex and drugs 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

He started out on jungle, but he graduated to hip-hop and made his name as a "battle" MC, competing with other rappers to deliver the best rhymes, with a bias towards florid insult. Are you ready for the British MCs? 2010-07-29T22:34:00Z

She freestyled some rhymes from the perspective of the girl in the song, punching back with force and style. Review: ‘Roxanne Roxanne’ Is a Slice of Old-School Hip-Hop Life 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

This is a big, shiny, fun, colourful rhyming book about pants! Family reviews: a selection 2012-07-29T11:00:00Z

The visual rhyme is a by-product of the layout on these pages, but Erwitt, for whom all photographs are happy accidents, would surely approve. Elliott Erwitt's law of intended consequences 2011-02-20T00:05:35Z

More than a few of my friends kept “rhyme books” stashed in their lockers and spent weekends pawing through vinyl at Fifth Element, the local record store. What can we learn from freestyle rappers? 2012-11-18T16:00:00Z

As a group, we were better at rhyme than rhythm, though we chased after the feet of a heavy iambic pentameter. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

My father used to sing nursery rhymes to me and was really pleased when he sang, “1, 2, 3, 4, 5” and I replied, “Once I caught a fish alive.” Experience: I woke up from a coma speaking French 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

That, in a word, is art, which insists you look again at the muddle of the familiar and perceive the rhymes and patterns that you never noticed before. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

In these improvisational shows in Brooklyn, the members of Freestyle Repertory Theater divide into two teams and try to run rings around each other — or, in this case, rhymes. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

His sonic landscape is as kaleidoscopic as his personal style — grungy, minimalist, funky and futuristic all at once — and his rhymes flow like cool waters. The Changing Sound of Baltimore 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z

He’s a merciless technician, a master of compound rhyme, and he never sweats, preferring this sort of thievery to the songs that are his to begin with. The Purpler the Bruise, the Sweeter the Song 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z

There are plenty of rhymes for "coalition," after all. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z

“Lemon Pepper Freestyle” — from his new “Scary Hours 2” EP — is a relaxed classic of the form, full of sly rhymes delivered so offhandedly it almost obscures the technical audacity within. St. Vincent’s Synth-Funk ‘Pain,’ and 9 More New Songs 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

The past tense of forbid was originally supposed to be spelled and pronounced "for-bad," but then people started spelling it as forbade and rhyming it with made. Eleven common words you're probably mispronouncing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

He is toughest of all on himself: nearly 50 years on he is still mortified by his rhyming of "woman" with "human" in a song that got yanked from Anyone Can Whistle. Stephen Sondheim: A life in music 2010-12-20T08:00:00Z

The enfolded quatrain-form is itself a reference to the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet's sestet. Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z

Since then he has illustrated about 300 books, from nursery rhymes to the Folio Society's Don Quixote. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z

“Buddy, buddy, buddy all up in your face. A lot of kids was busting rhymes, but they had no taste. Some said Quest was wack, but now is that the case?” Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of hip-hop’s influential A Tribe Called Quest, dies at 45 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

There’s a problem with her meter, There’s a problem with his rhyme, Everybody thinks they’re brilliant, but they’re losers every time! Style Invitational Week 1463: Fork over some (new) spoonerisms 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

It’s telling that even Sondheim’s non-rhymes rhyme, in the sense that they link different aspects of the same word. It’s Not the Music. It’s Not the Lyrics. It’s the Drama. 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Cole Porter's terrific music and dextrous, startling rhymes can both leaven and expose that most arid of Shakespeare's plays on which it is based. Birthday; Kiss Me Kate; Get Stuff Break Free – review 2012-06-30T23:05:59Z

There may be no rhyme in Skoyles’ poetry, but there’s every reason to read his delightful book. Poet offers literary feast in ‘A Moveable Famine’ 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Shapes rhyme, rhythms recur, colours reappear, the strong lines sweep through objects and images with a suave and celebratory force. Thomas Scheibitz – review 2013-07-26T15:00:00Z

Tinie Tempah, to name one, was born in Nigeria and honed his rhymes in London, his influences evident on tracks like "Pass Out." MTV names Wiz Khalifa, Warpaint, Miguel artists to watch 2010-12-20T06:00:00Z

It’s a haunting and vulnerable refrain, filled with loss and longing and absent the hooks and jaw-dropping rhymes that marked her last full-length LP, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Watch Nicki Minaj Update Alice in Wonderland for Pills N Potions 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

A similarly sombre mood shadows the third poem, the most fully rhymed of the sequence, with its opening apostrophe, "Wanderer". Poem of the week: Schubertiad by Fiona Sampson 2010-08-02T10:49:00Z

His clever, literate and perceptive libretto for “Anna Nicole” bops along in rhymed couples, thick with alliterative, everyday profanities. Opera Review: ?Anna Nicole? Reimagined at Covent Garden 2011-02-18T04:59:19Z

The music traverses the Americas, from old school hip-hop to Andean flutes, and Ms. Tijoux’s tough-minded rhymes lead into lilting choruses. Calmly Intent, Never Strident 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

Rudy, in a last-ditch bid to scare up some new material, tape-records the rhymes, jokes and tall tales of a group of homeless men. ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Review: Eddie Murphy, Raw and Cooking 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

He delivered his rhymes as flawlessly as on his records, breath control and cadences all perfect. Review | Kendrick Lamar reveals a more playful side 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

There are relatively straightforward hip-hop moments on "E3," too, such as Issue rhyming over the "T.R.O.Y." beat, and "Wedding Cake," which thumps over what sounds like bells sampled from a Hollywood Christmas movie. Download this: "E3" by Issue 2011-05-31T16:04:06Z

As Zephaniah concluded, in rhyme: "All the lovers all the cash came and went in a flash." Rewind radio: Jamie Cullum Interviews Dave Brubeck; Brubeck at 90; David Walliams on Philip Larkin; Decoding Basquiat; Ernest John Moraen 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

In the first three months it was open, the Broad — rhymes with “load” — drew more than a quarter million people. Los Angeles’ hottest ticket? The new Broad art museum 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z

Why did Shakespeare reach for rhyme in his most romantic play, despite blank verse being favoured from the 1580s for its realism? How to teach … Shakespeare 2013-04-15T17:45:01Z

Though losing some momentum in the middle, “Bodied” mostly maintains an irresistible, deliriously offensive roll, jabbing sharply at racism and misogyny with rhymes that spark and fizz. Review: ‘Bodied,’ a Shockingly Funny Battle Rap Satire 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Throughout, Darnielle switches perspectives, draws miniatures in rhymed couplets and moves through lines with gleeful precision. Mountain Goats' 'Beat the Champ' richly imagines wrestlers' world 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

A happy ending — and the unexpected overlay of rhymed pentameter couplets — makes this the easiest of the eight to absorb. Review: Reliving ‘Private Lives,’ This Time Mostly Women’s 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

The highest-profile guest on Wale’s “The Album About Nothing,” which currently sits at No. 1 on the Billboard chart, is a 60-year-old white man with no experience rhyming. Jerry Seinfeld on His New Friend, Wale, and 'The Album About Nothing' 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

“Join the Hunt!,” from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., will send them into the DiMenna with a sheet of five rhyming clues and follow-up questions for the objects the clues reveal. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 23-29 2011-12-22T21:03:48Z

Your poem isn’t required to rhyme, but we’ve found that the year’s cleverest poems almost always do. Style Invitational Week 1105: A lit obit of fun — write a poem for the late of 2014 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z

The whole thing is thoroughly, unrepentantly unsuitable for children, and we only discovered it when it appeared on a “because you watched …” submenu after watching some nursery rhymes. Netflix, no! What's that penis doing on kids' TV? 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Rock gods hate money, hate bling, hate fans, hate their wives, their guitarists, and anything that doesn't start with the letter "H" and rhyme with "shmeroin." The Strokes' brilliantly subversive media blitz 2011-03-14T15:14:00Z

That laissez-faire attitude, expressed in nursery rhyme language, is worth pondering. Music Review: Sue Raney at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-11-14T01:00:46Z

When Christoper Ricks, comparing Donne with Bob Dylan, asserts that "alliteration and rhyme are ways of having one thing lead to another", he could be commenting on Muldoon's lyrical strategies in Songs and Sonnets. Songs and Sonnets by Paul Muldoon – review 2013-01-11T20:00:01Z

Yet the language in “Where We Stand” bounces with rhyme, alliteration and wordplay. ‘Where We Stand’ Review: Gifts are Given, but at What Cost? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

“If you wrote your rhyme somewhere else, you still had to come back and lay your verse in Q-Tip’s house,” Busta Rhymes said. Loss Haunts A Tribe Called Quest’s First Album in 18 Years 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

McColl said she's trying to offer one option among dozens of versions of the rhyme that helped launch Santa Claus as an icon. There arose such a clatter over pipe-free Santa 2012-12-11T17:03:08Z

This rhyming book is all about the pictures, they are great. Superkid by Claire Freedman and Sarah McIntyre - review 2013-06-20T11:00:00Z

A great prelude to Eminem, the Minneapolis rapper dishes rhymes and narratives related to everyday events and normal people. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z

Some singsongy melodies are swapped for the tunes of actual nursery rhymes. Keely Garfield Draws on Kate Bush at Danspace Project 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

"I wanted to step out of the box musically, and show growth in my rhymes and my musical choices," said Redman, who turned 40 earlier this year. Redman drops new album 2010-12-08T03:54:00Z

It’s about the breaking of things that — as the nursery rhyme goes — can’t be put back together again. ‘All the King’s Men,’ Now 70, Has a Touch of 2016 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

After the show, I was surprised to see that only one musical number is actually titled “My Imagination,” as the word is sung throughout, often in strained rhyme with “invitation.” In 'Finding Neverland' at the Pantages, pirates and pixie dust obscure the show's secret weapon: Sorrow 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

He rhymes “student loans,” which are bad, with “treehouse homes,” which are good; he bemoans the people who say, “Wake up, you need to make money.” The Slippery Appeal of the Biggest New Band in America 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

El-P plays it fast and furiously; he piles up syllables and nimble internal rhymes with giddy dexterity. Album review: Run the Jewels, 'Run the Jewels' 2013-07-04T03:21:00Z

Some people pronounce LOL to rhyme with bowl, but they seem to be in the minority and risk adding confusion to their list of social fouls. ?: Alphabet Soup 2011-09-23T22:25:13Z

For Week 1079, the Empress resurrected an ancient Invite contest and asked once again for you to write a question whose answer consisted entirely of rhyming words. Style Invitational Week 1083: Good thing there’s no app for that

The subject matter is wide open as long as the entry is clever/funny; rhyming is welcome. Style Invitational Week 1317: Punku 2 — yup, haiku with puns 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

“I didn’t hire a designer, there’s not rhyme or reason to it. I just created a space filled with things that I love and prayed to God it would work out.” Restaurant Review: The Rest in Salt Lake City 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

If you want to be a battle rapper, or if you want to be respected as a true emcee, you should write your own rhymes. Ice Cube on Ghostwriting, Diss Tracks and 'Straight Outta Compton' 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

By the time he got to junior high school, he was writing rhymes nonstop. Review | Talib Kweli’s ‘Vibrate Higher’ is a plain-spoken striver’s tale 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

His history of bringing light to injustice and inequality via his rhymes is not so much a matter of education but of documentation. Run the Jewels return, right on time 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

For, as Clive James notes in his excellent introduction to his translation, "for an Italian poet, it's not rhyming that's hard". The Divine Comedy by Dante, translated by Clive James – review 2013-07-22T07:00:04Z

But free verse is a form of poetry without rules or expectations around meter, rhythm and rhyme, and the Southern California resident Brenda Woods’s “When Winter Robeson Came” is neither intimidating nor too self-serious. ‘Not Too Far From Watts’ 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

And I doubt this is because “census” rhymes with so many relevant words: fences, defenses, Mike Pence’s. Counting the Population Has Always Been Political 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

What sets him apart from other rappers is the acutely academic nature of his rhymes. Review: DJ Baba Brinkman mixes Darwin and dating 2012-12-06T01:30:13Z

Nobody cared that she wasn't using a backing track for her rhymes at the Tacoma Dome. Concert preview: Nicki Minaj's prime asset 2012-08-09T15:38:06Z

He told Craig Bennett, who plays Monsieur Firmin: “It’s great fun if you can say ‘To hell with Gluck and Handel, have a scandal’ — it’s the inner rhyme, isn’t it? Andrew Lloyd Webber Brings the Music of the Night Back to ‘Phantom’ 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Overall, "Born Sinner" is a treasure: Cole paints pictures with his superb rhymes and sets the mood nicely with his solid production. Review: J. Cole is superb on sophomore album 2013-06-17T19:13:08Z

Full of rhyme, repetition and wordplay, it starts in the womb and traces his passage through a chain of dehumanizing institutions to his release at 20. Theater Review: ?James X? by Gerard Mannix Flynn - Review 2011-12-10T00:21:41Z

Each ensuing sentence has the same deadpan straightforwardness, peppered with a few fun, fractured rhymes. Grandmas and Grandpas Are a Kid’s Natural Allies in These Books 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Veterans such as Eminem and Black Thought tend to be meticulous, offering an orderly sequence of verbal events, a steady drip of rhymed conclusions, sometimes even a proper story with a beginning, middle and end. Perspective | How to love that Black Thought freestyle and ‘mumble rap’ at the same time 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

The result is a delightful new look for traditional rhymes. Kids' gifts: Special books that offer hours of delight 2010-12-18T01:29:24Z

After the phonograph debuted, Edison began developing talking dolls with tiny phonographs in their bodies that played familiar nursery rhymes and songs. 11 Surprising facts about Thomas Edison 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

This album followed soon after, filled with artfully smeared rhymes and a surplus of ring-a-ding-ding-ding-dong. Perspective | Best music of 2021: Playboi Carti, Grouper, Turnstile, Yasmin Williams and more 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

Despite the story’s silly words and jingly rhymes, its thesis is sobering and clear: Unbridled capitalism will destroy the Earth. Perspective | Is Dr. Seuss’s Lorax real? These professors may have solved a 47-year-old mystery. 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

Ludwig also retooled the supertitles that accompany the arias, which are sung in Italian, trying to give some of them “rhyme and rhythm,” as he put it. Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

That the theme song doesn’t rhyme the B-word with “I’m no snitch.” Television Review: ?Don?t Trust the B???? in Apartment 23? on ABC 2012-04-10T22:15:25Z

These attracted little attention, but Guru's rapping talent – he possessed both strong narrative skills and a hard, monotone rhyming style – was noted. Guru obituary 2010-04-21T16:33:00Z

The agency with which she delivers her rhymes is another. How to celebrate Megan Thee Stallion's Hot Girl summer 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z

Awkward phrasing, painfully contrived rhymes and unnecessary repetition constantly kill the mood. Seattle Opera’s uneven ‘Flight,’ cleverly filmed at the Museum of Flight, takes off 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

But outside there is no sense of rhyme or rapport between the two buildings. Outcry over Glasgow School of Art extension 2011-02-25T19:22:40Z

Think of the rhyming gamblers from “Guys and Dolls” barking out track tips in “Fugue for Tinhorns,” or the leg-breaking, harmonizing gangsters from “Kiss Me, Kate,” who advised that you “Brush Up Your Shakespeare.” Theater Review: ‘Fiorello!’ an Encores! Musical at City Center 2013-01-31T22:37:27Z

Let’s try taking a butcher’s cleaver to the piece, evening out the rhythm and adding a rhyme scheme: The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z

There were new friends to be made on Tumblr — other people who laughed at the same jokes and obsessed over the same music, specifically, the rhymes of over-the-top Los Angeles rap outfit Odd Future. How to make friends (with Drake) and influence people — Meet Babeo Baggins of Barf Troop 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

And you, dear audience members, are the co-authors of these numbers — feeding the onstage crew the words, ideas and emotions that they then transform into improbably rhymed performance pieces. ‘Freestyle Love Supreme’ Review: Hip-Hop Saves the World 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

If I was writing with Toby, they’d be like, “Oh no, that rhyme should be at the end of the line,” or something to actually improve it, but I don’t have to do that alone. Lucy Moss Unwinds With Songwriting and TikTok Cleaning Tutorials 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

He did the chintzy electro-surf beat and most of the vocals, flavoring the track with breathy, highly mannered sexcapade lyrics that sound more like nursery rhymes than raps. Friday Favorites: Mesita, Mash Hall, Rick Ross and Kanye West 2010-07-02T18:00:00Z

Her label is called Sacai, a play on her maiden name, Sakai, which rhymes with “sigh,” and her clothes — beautiful, delightful, bold — are the result of aesthetic grafting. Chitose Abe of Sacai: Fashion that deconstructs the familiar, intrigues the eye 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

But with a help from her synthetic selves, Marshall delivers the lyrics in a round, affecting a childhood rhyme. Cat Power Shines on Sun 2012-09-07T12:00:25Z

"I learnt... that making the words rhyme isn't necessarily the same as making the words matter." BBC Sound Of 2015 countdown begins 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

He occasionally answers in rhyme--which may also reflect his other creative outlet, rapping. Lakeith Stanfield, Contemporary Chameleon 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Now, I can criticize this because I do listen to rap music, and part of me is offended by what are supposed to be rhymes. Who is Ben Carson trying to fool with his bizarre, insincere rap ad?: “He’s a more refined version of Sarah Palin” 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Like “B Is for Ballet,” it rhymes, but it never really swings. 5 Dance Picture Books 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Except the chorus rhymes "matador" with "blood sports". This week's new tracks 2012-09-28T23:05:00Z

“We didn’t have a dog,” she writes, “but I needed a rhyme for ‘fog.’” Going back to school with writers and the first things they wrote in 'Our Story Begins' 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

Not the one that rhymes with “duck,” but “Feminism” — which is infinitely more complicated, and always a buzzkill to bring up one day after an icon’s death. Perspective | Hugh Hefner was a feminist (if you believe feminism is pretty women having sex with you) 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

His most iconic songs were bar-napkin sketches of uncanny depth, featuring at least one casually brilliant phrase that would jump out at you from the blind corner of a rhyme. Perspective | John Prine’s lyrical one-liners could take your breath away 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

That gritty, realistic snapshot of urban crime was lifted by the duo’s masterful rhymes. Pop & Rock Listings for July 11-17 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Yet despite Laing’s successful rhymes, poetry cards have undeniably fallen out of favour. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

"Good lyrics often do what you are taught not to do in poems: cliches, cheesy rhymes, mixed metaphors." A defence of poetry at the Hay festival 2010-06-01T21:40:00Z

“It is interesting how the two shows’ titles rhyme,” he said, refusing to comment further on the similarities. ‘The Choice’ From Fox Battles ‘The Voice’ From NBC 2012-06-05T22:17:07Z

"I Love Rock and Roll" plods along, with a telegraphed rhyme scheme and overproduced sheen. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Seven complaints about its 2015 selections 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

For having the nerve to place such an aria so early in his play, and for writing in verse which can flow and caper and get laughs pinging off the rhymes. La B?te; One-on-One festival; You Me Bum Bum Train 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

He rose to prominence as a performer in 2003 with the song “New Millennium,” which featured his trademark intricately constructed polysyllabic rhymes delivered in densely coded patois — the diametric opposite of mainstream hits. Music: Managing a Brand He Made Himself 2011-06-16T15:19:38Z

At another, he dons a disguise and is mistaken for a man named Rinehart — in Marshall’s hands becoming a pointed rhyme with Ad Reinhardt, Modernist abstraction’s ultimate black-on-black painter of invisibility. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

True, this album has plenty of kid-friendly instrumentation — accordion, softly elegant guitar, and what sounds like a penny whistle — but it’s no stroll to nursery rhyme heaven. Country Times: Songs to make a summer playlist sing 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

When he broke through as a performer in 2006, his street-wise image and rhymes about the Miami gangster lifestyle seemed like references to a shady past. Rap lyrics can be used as ‘smoking gun’ in criminal cases 2014-03-28T02:01:41Z

Here is Mr Magnolia, with his sisters and parakeets and mice, and rhymes any two-year-old can bellow, "BOOT", "HOOT", "ROOTY-TOOT". Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z

Fred had this amazing ability to improvise in rhyme and meter the same way I do at the keyboard. Tonys 2015: Composer John Kander 'channels' his late partner, lyricist Fred Ebb 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

There are no pretty gingerbread houses in this version, sung in an English translation peppered with clever rhymes. | 'Hansel and Gretel': At the Met, an Opera That Serves Children 2009-12-17T06:03:00Z

The way that I rhyme — the Streets is the biggest influence and then maybe Paul Simon. The 1975’s Matty Healy Is Still Trying to Be Funny, Sincerely 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

But it’s not quite like teaching nursery rhymes; maybe more like a composer teaching the basic idea of the scale and of chords. In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

It was after she quit school following years of bullying that Haze started posting videos from her Washington DC living room, refining an audacious flow that spews out complex rhyme after complex rhyme. New music: Angel Haze – New York 2012-07-04T06:00:00Z

His first challenge is provided by the bald, bearded, beaky-nosed, unkempt dwarves, six pairs of them with rhyming names and all constantly brawling, eating and singing. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – review 2012-12-16T00:05:40Z

Call’d him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Vanessa's Sin and Obsession 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

There's not a lot of rhyme or reason to it. In defense of film and TV "hoaxes" 2010-10-22T14:31:00Z

But Waldstreicher acknowledges that her neoclassical rhymes and religious piety still makes some modern readers “run from the library stacks.” A Fresh Look at a Pioneering Black Voice of Revolutionary America 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

It's a slick piece of functional grimy pop that features a cameo from another new soul girl, Little Nikki, and rhymes "apocalypse" with "parlour tricks". New band of the day - L Marshall (No 1,420) 2012-12-20T17:46:26Z

Trouble is Stasia Irons and Catherine Harris-White were performing at a noisy club, and though the duo's blend of melodic singing and sharp sci-fi rhyming was impressive, it didn't cut through the din. Wild Belle rules at SXSW 2012-03-17T16:10:00Z

Modern poets have thrown out the tools that make poetry live — meter, rhyme, sound effects, traditional forms. Feminists, Poetic Pretensions and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

In “The Summer Tree,” published in The Christian Science Monitor in 1968, for instance, the first four stanzas employ half- and whole rhymes in alternation. Edith Shiffert, a Poet Inspired by Nature and Her Life in Japan, Dies at 101 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

Nursery rhymes, pirates, cowboys, fairytales, dinosaurs, underwater scenes, ghosts and ghouls all connect with childhood fantasies. 10 of the best UK and European theme parks: readers’ tips 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Among other things, I realized that a lot of the rhymes I hadn’t liked onstage seemed harmless when I no longer needed to get information from them. Listening to the Best (and Worst) of Broadway 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

What rhymes with “limited Broadway run”? After a successful stint Off Broadway, this hip-hop musical comedy, improvised anew each night, moves uptown. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Dolemite was his rhyming alter ego, sometimes called the godfather of rap, who specialized in kung fu and oddball put-downs. Eddie Murphy Is Bringing Eddie Murphy Back 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

A major star in Angola, she is a transgender woman who flaunts uninhibited, rat-a-tat rhymes in Portuguese. Review: ‘Electronic Africa’ Pushes Dance Rhythms to a Breakneck Speed 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

Run Little Horsey sounds like a bid by Lowell to come up with a latterday nursery rhyme, her voice emanating both glee and creepy whimsy. New band of the day – Lowell (No 1,382) 2012-10-29T17:08:21Z

Her mother had found a smutty rhyme in her daughter's gymslip pocket, illustrated by Beryl. Dame Beryl Bainbridge obituary 2010-07-02T12:46:00Z

She represents a generation of white kids who grew up with hip-hop but who weren’t obsessed with it so they feel rhyming is theirs to use without needing to pay homage to the culture. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z

As High points out, reading is often used to help a baby wind down at the end of the day, and the regular rhythm of a rhyming sonnet can’t hurt. Read to Your Baby, Say Doctors — But Which Books? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

It’s written in rhymed triplets, a version of a form employed by the poets Chaucer and Dante called a terza rima. This Basketball-Loving Poet Resists Categorization 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

The 17-track album is filled with complex rhymes from Fiasco, who raps masterfully on several scenarios regarding American urban culture. Review: Lupe Fiasco raps masterfully on new album 2012-09-26T20:39:10Z

Try the witty, wild poems in Michael Robbins’s collection, “Alien vs. Predator”; in the title poem the poet rhymes “jerk” with “berserk.” Dear Reader, Meet Your Match: An Advice Column for Book Lovers 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

On Supporting Madness is a rhyming horror story about an unhappy tour he undertook with Suggs and co. Phill Jupitus is Porky the Poet in 27 Years On – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-07T15:29:24Z

You can’t miss how the lyrics, with their widely spaced rhymes and halting imagery, simulate the way tragedy is absorbed piecemeal by a country in shock, as for many of us our country is now. Bringing Out the Best of Sondheim, Herman and … Schraubstader? 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

Songwriters are keen on using inanimate objects as thinly veiled metaphors for emotion, not least because only dove, glove and .gov rhyme with love. Swim Deep, Gabrielle Aplin, Jai McDowall: this week's new tracks 2013-05-03T12:00:00Z

That geometry meant distilling Shakespeare’s language into formalized rhymes that would allow Mr. Adès’s music enough space to conjure the magic of the opera. Thomas Adès Conducts the Met’s Premiere of ‘The Tempest’ 2012-10-21T03:23:03Z

He's also a traditional gangster rapper, both in the sense that he rhymes about crime and cops, and in the sense that he does so like they used to in the 90s. Freddie Gibbs at SXSW 2011 - review 2011-03-18T15:50:57Z

Sparks of color, such as the green of the cantaloupe pith, punctuate the rhyming browns of the pancakes, maple syrup, plates, table and water glass. Stephen Shore’s MoMA Survey Shows a Restless Reformer as a Master of Photography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Specifically, the planet in question is named Aldana, where the residents speak entirely in rhyme, per Issue #9 of Captain Marvel. "The Marvels": Here's your primer to Park Seo-joon, your new MCU hero 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z

Sometimes he didn’t bother to rhyme; sometimes his rhymes dazzled. Michael Friedman Left Behind a Musical. They’re Finishing It. 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

They huddle in little circles, in sweats and jeans, passing around their black sketchbooks and reciting their rhymes off crumpled loose-leaf binder paper. Katalyst arts program unites youth from many backgrounds 2010-06-02T22:24:00Z

Feel free to rhyme as many moons with as many spoons as you see fit, and let a thousand roses bloom. Poster poems: June 2012-06-15T13:46:24Z

But listen hard and you can detect Mr. Sondheim’s gifts for acrobatic rhythm and rhyme and teasing pastiches that both mock and embrace classic musical comedy forms. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z

Imagine shooting the breeze with a cackling, clearsighted cynic who suddenly leans in, lowers her voice and describes the state of your soul in improvised rhyming couplets. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The talk of this trio brims with profanity and chattiness, but also with rough lyricism and pulsing, low-key, irregularly positioned rhyme. ‘Terminus’ barrels onto Studio’s 2ndStage 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

“Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” translates the bloody upheavals of our last few decades into the comic-book antics of warring jinn wielding bolts of fire, mystical transmutations and rhyming battle spells. Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a swirling tale of genies and geniuses 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Her forthcoming single Gold Car is more a showcase for the deep low bass – it's every bit as charismatic as Sharp herself, whose light/night/right rhymes are less impressive than Green's production trickery. New band of the day: Phreeda Sharp (No 1,514) 2013-05-16T15:31:43Z

They kind of rhyme with each other, like stanzas. Coming to the Festival of Books: Jill Alexander Essbaum and 'Hausfrau' 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z

The poem reads as both a feminist statement and a defense for her own powerfully prickly syllabics, unusual rhymes, and often strange music. The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

In the manner of many one-man plays, “Typical” is a continuous interior monologue; the Alder character narrates his day as if keeping a minute-by-minute journal in lightly rhymed, high-spirited verse. Making Black Lives, Not Just Black Deaths, Matter Onstage 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z

It’s Latin for “forwards” It’s Italian for “exclusive” It’s Japanese for “luxury” It’s rhyming slang for “awesome” When was London fashion week first held? London fashion week: how front row are you? 2013-02-16T12:00:02Z

The rococo rhymes on this momentous new album, “Thank You for Using GTL,” were recorded entirely over the phone. Review | The most urgent rap album of 2020? Drakeo the Ruler just phoned it in from jail. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

If this brave Angeleno’s heroic insurrection against metered rhyme ends up going down in rap history as a mere flash, may we never forget how glaringly bright it felt. Perspective | Best music of 2019: Lana Del Rey sings lullabies about the end of America 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

The result of their collaboration certainly rhymes, but it’s got more than iambic pentameter; together, the three stage a hip-hop-influenced version of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

I've got a cute posh-Glasgow accent, so when I say nook – as in "a little nook of western Eurasia" – it rhymes with spook. TV review: Wonders of the Universe, Civilization: Is the West History?, South Riding 2011-03-06T22:15:01Z

Did you need to rhyme with "spending your money" or did you need to rhyme with "bourgeoisie"? Stephen Malkmus stares into the "Mirror" 2011-08-22T23:01:00Z

Yankovic commits a couple of his own crimes — as in “Here’s some notes,” which should be “Here are some notes,” for the subject to agree with the verb — and quite a few rhyme crimes. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

An ambitious young composer who holds law and music degrees, he wrote a funny, sentimental rhymed libretto with hundreds of footnotes citing legal and operatic precedents and showed it to Scalia and Ginsburg. With Derrick Wang's 'Scalia/Ginsburg,' a unanimous opinion 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Attention; theatergoers who like their comedy rhymed, erotic and set to catchy tunes. Suggestive chat and a 'burlesque musical': Canada's Wet Spots makes 2 Seattle stops 2010-06-17T20:20:00Z

And Korie’s text, which often tips into rhyme, can tend risible: “A feeling I infer of anarchy astir.” Review: An Opera Sings of a World on the Verge of Ending 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

And he’s a bully of a rapper, deploying hard, single-syllable rhymes without the slightest hint of fluidity — knowingly or not, he’s basically channeling the Chicago drill music aesthetic of Chief Keef and others. Albums by Nick Jonas, Bobby Shmurda and New Basement Tapes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Published in what was East Germany, War Primer used second world war photographs, mostly from Life magazine, and accompanied each one with a short rhyming epigram, by Brecht, as comment and counterpoint. Deutsche Börse Photography prize show: mashups and moon walkers 2013-04-17T17:23:17Z

All the while, music played that carried off the impressive feat of being both playful and menacing, like a bedtime nursery rhyme that would later prompt nightmares. On the Runway Blog: Thom Browne and Donatella Versace Both Put on a Show 2014-01-20T16:22:43Z

Dizzee Rascal bounces on unannounced, spouts spatter rhymes over The Power and dives into the delirious crowd. DJ Fresh ? review 2012-05-17T17:10:23Z

Drake released “Charged Up” on Saturday night, a response to Meek Mill’s claims earlier in the week that the Toronto rapper didn’t write his own rhymes. Meek Mill Hits Back at Drake Diss Track 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

By that fall, a single appeared that featured some young New Jersey vocalists, called the Sugarhill Gang, delivering rhyming verse in sing-song voices over instrumental sections lifted from “Good Times.” Nile Rodgers — defender of disco 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Like parentheses, Rubens has tied the two together in a visual rhyme. Peter Paul Rubens was a brilliant sensationalist 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

His story rhymes can be devastating, as on “Chum” and the breakup lament “Sunday.” Earl Sweatshirt and ASAP Ferg, Hip-Hop Progressives 2013-08-15T16:50:54Z

His simple rhythms and rhymes are asserted with an emotional directness that renders the simplicity trustworthy. Poem of the week: To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 2010-04-26T09:17:00Z

Although the line is syllabic, the rhymes create a contrastingly accentual effect. Poem of the week: Going, Going... by Leah Fritz 2011-08-22T09:18:53Z

Seshadri is fluent in an unusually wide range of forms — he ranges here from rhymed quatrains to fat blocks of prose — and his voice is typically chatty, probing, importuning, self-mocking. A Poet Who Mesmerizes by Zigs and Zags, Hopping From Idea to Idea 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

So this gave her a chance to share more clerihews from Week 1133, with their ingenious rhyme combined with comically bad meter. Style Invitational Week 1139: 64 different ways to lose! 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

This negotiation, with its attendant crisis of confidence, is a kind of parallel or conceptual rhyme with the understanding between Mac and Colette. Shadow Dancer – review 2012-08-23T14:29:01Z

On Currensy songs the rhymes serve as reassurance, quick jolts of focus that are a reminder of a world outside his prodigious haze. New Music by Currensy and Ashton Shepherd 2011-07-11T22:19:20Z

He remembers his partner, Ridley, reminding him of the adage that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. ‘Five Days at Memorial’ Tells the Harrowing Story of a Deadly Choice 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

His stanza form of choice is often the quatrain, rhyming a/b/c/b or a/b/a/b. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

Finley premiered the version for piano in 2014, using the rhymed English translation by Edward FitzGerald, “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” and he is the skilled soloist here in the orchestral version. CD reviews: Late works by late composers Rautavaara, Henze 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

I have always been a little laid back with my personal story and when I write rhymes. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

As a teenager she expressed them in hip-hop, sharing her ideas and rhymes at the Good Life, a club not far from the University of Southern California campus. Ava DuVernay and ‘Middle of Nowhere’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z

“When it works, the Ouija board produces a pleasingly double sensation of surprise and inevitability, like an effective rhyme or witty remark,” Mr. Hammer writes. Review: ‘James Merrill: Life and Art,’ a Literary Biography 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Her trademark, she explains to the crowd, is giving toasts in rhyming verse. David Rakoff’s Last Deadline 2013-07-03T16:16:53Z

He would repeat a word or pause to spell it, or follow it with words that rhymed, his sentences progressing via not meaning but sound. My Brother Tom’s Schizophrenia 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Suppose Soulja Boy wanted to bust some rhymes with a rap adaptation of “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” Challenges Abound in a Feast of Serious Trivia 2011-02-08T16:09:41Z

The challenge for the anglophone poet lies both in rhyming skill and tonal balance. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z

One might detect in this philosophy something of Rumi’s own approach to poetry: Rumi often amended texts from the Koran so that they would fit the lyrical rhyme and meter of the Persian verse. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

That it rhymed with current events was only accidentally. USA Network Pulls 'Shooter'—But Would It Ever Have Been Appropriate? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z

Your poem isn’t required to rhyme, but the Empress happens to have chosen rhyming verses in all 15 of her previous obit poetry contests. Style Invitational Week 1261: Post mortems — our annual obit poetry contest 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Ask anyone who has been frustrated that “rough” and “through” don’t rhyme: We have trouble enough with English. Lost, and Found, in Translation: 3 Picture Books About Language Turn Anglocentric Tropes on Their Head 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

With the most marvelous and specific visual examples from everywhere, it is an obsessively detailed history and explanation of the human drive to symmetry, balance, rhyming and the desire to “fill” space. You Won’t Find Mark Morris at the Multiplex 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

"Frank's neat row of teeth rhymed perfectly with the white line of handkerchief cresting the top pocket of his suit." The Life and Opinions of Maf the?Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan 2010-05-07T23:11:00Z

New Year's Day – which carefully rhymes "pocket" with "space rocket" – is like a Rutles pastiche of an Oasis pastiche of the Beatles. Brother ? review 2011-02-20T22:45:00Z

Mr. Frank carefully sequenced them to form a visual epic poem, with internal pacing and rhymes. Robert Frank Revealed the Truth of Postwar America 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

This is as close as you can come to thinking along with Shakespeare, weighing one word against the other, grasping for a rhyme or phrase in a way that suggests Shakespeare’s own way of composing. Encounters with Shakespeare 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z

Roberts laughs when I suggest to him that he seems on a one-man mission to test the limits of rhyme. Alasdair Roberts: 'I've always been drawn to heavy, big old ballads' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z

The legendary Tribe took a different approach to hip-hop in the early 1990s, blending Afro-centric rhymes with jazz and promoting social change through its music. Weekend Miser 2011-07-07T22:17:04Z

That "tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme" returns to the screen, now in 3-D. Bewitching 'Beauty and the Beast' now in 3-D 2012-01-12T21:16:08Z

Even with my limited grasp of these rambunctious rhymes, the text of “Baby Divine” fascinated me. Bette Midler Looks Back on Her Autobiographical, Fantastical Children’s Book, “The Saga of Baby Divine” 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

The project turned out to be just as complicated as they had feared: complex rhyme schemes, elaborate wordplay and so many songs. Six Lyrics That Show Why ‘Hamilton’ Is Tough to Translate 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Sweet and powerful rhymes count down the days from Monday to Sunday, when the enslaved people of New Orleans were allowed to join free blacks for a day of music, socializing and commerce. The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

And the cagily mispronounced “abdomen” in “It Ain’t Necessarily So,” the one that rhymes with “home in”? That takes a bit more doing to translate properly — if it’s worth doing at all. ‘Porgy and Bess’ Can Offend. Now Try Translating It Into Spanish. 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

“In the movie ‘Kill Your Darlings,’ Daniel Radcliffe plays Allen Ginsberg as a clean-shaven Columbia student who rebels against literary and cultural traditions, among them such poetic niceties as rhyme and metre.” Sunday Reading: The Beat Generation 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

She fills the novel with epigrams, allusions and footnotes from actual texts and literature, ranging from "The Wealth of Nations" and "The Wretched of the Earth" to Wordsworth and nursery rhymes. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Down with fascist iPods Trust me on this: There is a reason digital rhymes with douchenozzle. Down with fascist iPods 2012-06-13T00:07:00Z

After spending nearly three years in jail on charges he was never found guilty of, the great Los Angeles rapper is finally free, resuming his pathfinding career with meticulous rhymes and charismatic smirks. Perspective | Best music of 2020: Theo Parrish, Noname, Pop Smoke, Hailey Whitters and more 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

For the Beastie Boys, that means pilfering from the younger versions of themselves, which means in turn pilfering from the protean rhyme schemes and rap-along chants of the Furious 5 or the Cold Crush Brothers. White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

There's a rhyme and a rhythm to it that will enable you to remember it better. The right and wrong ways to name a movie 2011-02-11T14:50:00Z

But it is "The Weasel", a sinister ballad adapted from the well-known nursery rhyme, that is surely the most remarkable poem in the book. The Havocs by Jacob Polley – review 2013-01-04T21:55:01Z

As Shakespeare’s disposable characters become the stars of their own show, the puns, shtick, and rhyming couplets flow—alongside every conceivable bodily fluid, spewed from corpses and actors alike. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z

In word and in sound, he’s given to imagistic extremism, but now he has a true partner in rhyme. Albums From Jerry Lee Lewis and Daniel Lanois 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

“It’s got some really strong internal rhymes. Let’s see.” James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

I liked the tension between the lightness of the rhyme and rhythm and the intensity of the story. The ballad of my son's struggle 2013-06-17T18:07:00Z

Chapman and Pope did the poems into rhyming couplets. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Finally, much of her poetry made meticulous use of rhyme, which by the mid-20th century was disdained by the poetic establishment as inimical to the making of serious art. Naomi Replansky, Poet of Hopeful Struggle, Dies at 104 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z

One of them, “Mother Goose as a Suffragette,” is a collection of altered nursery rhymes like: Jack and Jill Have equal will And equal strength of mind. Revisiting the Fervor of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

She pronounces “vinos” as if it rhymes with “rhinos,” stretching out each vowel like an announcer at a boxing match. Kaitlyn Bristowe has become Bachelor Nation’s unlikely lifestyle guru. A scrunchie for $15, anyone? 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

We were like teenagers sitting in the same room making beats and rhymes. El-P interview: "It's an insane reality we're living in' 2012-07-05T13:48:00Z

That gondola sunk nearly 20 years ago, destroyed by a film whose title rhymes with the next best declaration of disbelief after the word "why": "Really?" Has Ben Affleck's"Deep Water" left you asking why? Look back at "Gigli" 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z

Start with “Mother Goose nursery rhymes and simple Dr. Seuss beginner books,” advises Nesbitt. Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate 2013-06-15T14:58:08Z

As soon as white women start rhyming, no matter what they say, it’s seen as cute and comical, like a cat walking on its hind legs. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z

In many ways it's exactly what you would expect from a Noel Gallagher song: a pretty, Kinks-esque acoustic shuffle, creaky falsetto, rhyming "city" with "pretty" and "pity". New music: Noel Gallagher ? The Death of You and Me 2011-07-25T09:00:00Z

One of the year’s signature rap stylists, Remble declaims like he’s giving a physics lecture, all punching-bag emphasis and tricky internal rhymes. 15 Songs We Almost Missed This Year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

I thought that Patrick should experiment with free verse, and told him so, but he did not depart from meter and rhyme. Pablo Neruda Wrote Me a Poem 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

The term “ordering patterns” isn’t just a euphemism for stanzas, rhyme schemes and meter. Review | Everything you ever wanted to know about poetry (but were afraid to ask) 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z

The year of mumble rap was rough on pedantic grumps who use the term “mumble rap” — a pejorative hurled at young artists who smudge their rhymes with melody. Perspective | How to love that Black Thought freestyle and ‘mumble rap’ at the same time 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

"Like all songwriters, he was a master storyteller, but it was the realism in his rhymes that captured so many." Notorious B.I.G. to Posthumously Receive ASCAP Founders Award 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

When we learn Val is a quarter Chinese, like Tiller’s mom, and VeeJ is an eighth, like Tiller, their stories rhyme. Chang-rae Lee’s Global Revision of the Suburban Novel 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

The Chicago rapper Tink — who performed outside at the Fader Fort — sped through tricky rhymes about being a forthright, self-sufficient woman. At SXSW, Stepping Back to Allow Hopeful Artists to Step Up 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

As a lyricist, Grohl is not immune to cliché or predictable rhyme patterns, and that tendency threatens to sink a few of the album’s quieter, more down-tempo numbers. Foo Fighters Are Shaken Yet Still Standing on ‘But Here We Are’ 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

In the longer "story" poems of hers, "The Fish" or "The Moose", for example, she uses rhyme as echo, finding a subtle meter that is never obtrusive. Elizabeth Bishop: a centenary to celebrate 2011-02-08T17:50:28Z

The rhymed lines also shift position from one stanza to the next, creating a feeling of rippling movement that suggests leaves ruffled by the wind: Edith Shiffert, a Poet Inspired by Nature and Her Life in Japan, Dies at 101 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Berry was credited with penning more than 100 songs, the best known of which used carefully crafted rhymes and offered tightly written vignettes about American life. Chuck Berry, wild man of rock who helped define its rebellious spirit, dies at 90 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

There are certain artists that make me do that just because of the caliber that they rhyme at — it’s like candy to me. Eminem Collaborates on the Album for the Film ‘Southpaw’ 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Both started their music careers on a whim: Kitty Pryde began rapping to entertain her friends; Kilo Kish would drop the odd rhyme or two over beers with her rapper roommate. The New Face of Rap: Young, Female and Ready to Blog 2012-05-30T10:45:30Z

He’s from Pittsburgh, and a clear inheritor of New York’s mid-90s to mid-00s golden age, with the polysyllabic internal rhymes to prove it. Review: Mac Miller Releases His First Major-Label Album, “GO:OD AM” 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

Thai artists stand out from others in Southeast Asia because the language innately rhymes in daily speech, lending itself to rap and hip hop, Sirisant said in an interview. Rap and rice paddies: Thai hip hop creates unlikely new stars 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

But casual fans might recognize Reid's novelty-act alter ego, Blowfly, a stage persona best known for a sequined superhero outfit and some of the dirtiest, dumbest rhymes ever written outside of a bathroom stall. 'The Weird World of Blowfly': a musician's flip side 2011-11-23T22:26:05Z

While many of her rhymes are merely serviceable, plenty are more distinctive, like “riches” and “bewitches,” “obscurity” and “security,” “splendor” and “surrender,” even “freakin’” and “beacon.” Review: Could a Long-Gone Antarctic Explorer Be Mr. Right? 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

And like the worst Weezer records, it sounds as if the lyrics were tossed off in five minutes, with rhyme schemes Simon Cowell might dismiss as a bit obvious. Jeff the Brotherhood: Hypnotic Nights – review 2012-10-04T20:15:01Z

The students added verses to George Gershwin and Cole Porter songs, mimicking rhyme scheme and voice, an exercise that Nardino maintains “captures writing for television” perfectly. His class is famously tough. ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Westworld’ wouldn’t exist without it. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Mr. Joel then parodied country music’s lyrics by reciting an original verse that rhymed “Mama cooked up the grits” with an unprintable bodily function. Don Henley and Billy Joel, at 92nd Street Y, Trade Stories About a Lifetime of Songwriting 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

For one, he free-styled at length, improvising seemingly spontaneous rhymes to incorporate bits of text messages that were supposedly from the audience. Music Review | Black Eyed Peas: Wired for Sound, and Everything Else 2010-02-25T23:12:00Z

There are fewer trick rhymes than usual, but laugh-out-loud jokes nonetheless. ‘Here We Are’ Review: The Last Sondheim, Cool and Impossibly Chic 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z

But since my traveling companion was my 1-year-old daughter, Sasha, conversation was generally pretty limited, and though I sang her nursery rhymes in Chinese, I can’t say my language abilities improved at all. Expensive Language Lessons? Doesn't Translate 2010-04-07T03:01:00Z

More than 600 of you keyed in rhymes, haiku, free verse, iambic pentameter ... you name it. Seattle Times Twitter poetry contest concludes 2010-05-01T00:19:00Z

Duncanson's composition rhymes the stark foreground hills with pale but radiant mountains disappearing off into the remote distance. Huntington's new gallery rooms show promise 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z

Whether writing for children or adults, he harnessed elegantly rhymed light verse to a gift for tall tales and fables and a fondness for twist endings and ever-expanding lists. Music Review: Celebrating a Twisted, Elegant Versifier 2011-08-07T21:46:32Z

N.W.A, with its explosive beats and stinging rhymes, told such tales from the inside. John Singleton found a perfect marriage of movie and moment 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

So happy, his most exuberant rhymes always seem to fall on the wrong beat, and by heaving his curvy Tennessee drawl into such asymmetrical couplets, he sounds like he’s pounding round pegs into square holes. Review | Playboi Carti and BlocBoy JB make great rap music. Will you make time to listen? 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

He deplores what he calls “mechanical form,” telling one interviewer in the 1990s that writing within certain rhymes and meters resembles “learning how to balance brooms on your head.” Books of The Times: ?Collected Poems? by Jack Gilbert 2012-03-13T12:00:00Z

His career began aged 11, with rhymes about even the most banal, innocent topics. Ones to watch in 2013: Scrufizzer 2013-01-01T10:00:04Z

Radha seeks an alternative outlet in hip-hop, adopting the moniker RadhamMUSPrime as she spits raw, funny, intricate rhymes about the realities of being a Black woman facing middle age in 21st-century New York City. ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Review: Rapper’s Delight 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

It was written entirely in rhyming couplets, set in the 1600s, and for large chunks of the play my character doesn't say a lot. David Hyde Pierce starring in psychological thriller 2011-05-30T01:43:37Z

Here, the narrative rhymes, projections illustrate the action, and the heroine reveals herself as more funky than fragile. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

I patiently explained to Pat that, used as intended, inflected in a sophisticated fashion, “what” rhymes with “squat.” Perspective | How do you pronounce the word ‘what’? 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

Blank verse is verse that does not rhyme. Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

There’s surprise in the way that the recognizable signatures play against the brainy, wrong-footing rhymes. Review: ‘Gone Missing,’ Now a Poignant Reminder of a Life Cut Short 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

She would alternate between cackling like a witch on laughing gas and barking out something about “true rhymes.” Style Invitational Week 1268: Playing Pinocchio — give us fake trivia on the media 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

NF’s rhyme schemes are tightly clustered, he raps fast, and he is constantly vibrating between exasperated and agonized. NF Has the No. 1 Album in the Country, and He Sounds Miserable 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Then he rhymes “these times together” with “stormy weather.” Pink Floyd drifts toward nothingness on 'The Endless River' 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Her plain rhyming couplets – not particularly gracefully executed, it has to be admitted – are an ideal home for a set of speculations. Poem of the week: Of Many Worlds in This World by Margaret Lucas Cavendish 2012-07-02T10:52:13Z

It is perhaps the catchiest children’s rhyme since “Sam I am.” The happy future of ‘Llama Llama’ after its creator’s death 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z

The cast speaks brilliantly, hopping onto the high wire of Ives’s rhymes and nailing punch lines that glisten with classical flair and contemporary savvy. Manic poets collide in STC’s newly hip 18th-century ‘Metromaniacs’ 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

He raps in a steady, constantly rhyming growl; not an innovator but a master of verse structure. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z

When she was around, she was happy to rock my son, sing him nursery rhymes and bathe him. I grew callaloo to spite my mom: How cooking a Jamaican dish healed old wounds, plus how to make it 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

Only his lips and his left hand moved as he leaned into verse after verse, finding endless ways to rhyme about his favorite subjects: the business of power, and the power of business. Concert review: Watch the Throne at the United Center 2011-12-01T07:35:00Z

The tune itself isn’t exactly new: It started as a simple nursery rhyme more than 20 years ago, a go-to singalong on school playgrounds and summer campgrounds. The story of ‘Baby Shark’: How toddlers around the world made a K-pop earworm go viral 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

The poem's rhythms, that potent blend of nursery rhyme and ragtime, still thrum through me: "You do not do, you do not do/Any more, black shoe" rhyming daringly at the stanza's end with "Achoo". Sylvia Plath: reflections on her legacy 2013-02-08T18:00:02Z

And they do so while speaking in rhyme. MCA's 'Terminus' takes us to death and back again 2011-03-03T18:57:49Z

A boy's quilt becomes a spaceship as the cumulative rhyming verse soars from the galaxy to the Earth to the boy's town and street, "with friends I know and new ones to meet." New kids' books: 12 days of a Washington Christmas and fairy tales for teens 2011-12-09T20:04:05Z

The divide isn't actually between people who want to stitch rhymed verse into samplers and sell it in tourist shops, and those so high-minded they think Basil Bunting was a sellout. Garrison Keillor v August Kleinzahler 2011-04-10T21:29:05Z

"One which seems wonderful may bring $300, and one which seems equally as wonderful brings $3,000 for no rhyme or reason," he said. Black cloth dolls growing in collector popularity 2012-07-28T18:16:04Z

The essentials: “King Henry VIII. To six wives he was wedded. One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded,” goes a jaunty old rhyme about the much-married British monarch. The 99-Seat Beat: Aaron Posner, Anna Ziegler and the return of Tim Dang 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Like Cash’s lyrics, the poems in “Forever Words” are written in plain language, usually with a clear rhyming meter. Johnny Cash, the Poet in Black 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

As written, the words appear noncommittal, yet the rhyme implies the patness of what these women have to say. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

He does not mimic the meter or rhyme of the originals, instead striving to capture the spirit of this poetry. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

This chance first meeting with the Young Gents spells trouble for the married pair — trouble with a capital T that rhymes with G and that stands for gender. ‘Please Baby Please’ Review: Hyper-Masculinity, on Its Head 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

In a genre where fictionalised, sensationalist rhymes about cop killing, gangland gunplay and wife murder have been celebrated for decades, it's hard to draw a line and mark Odd Future's lyrics as uniquely unacceptable. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All – review 2013-07-02T18:29:27Z

Her flow is weird and disjointed at times, but she succeeds in her clever and often complicated rhyme constructions. The New Face of Rap: Young, Female and Ready to Blog 2012-05-30T10:45:30Z

In addition, Brown is working on updating the illustrations — using collage instead of watercolor — in some books of classic rhymes and finger plays that he published years ago. In 'Arthur Turns Green,' aardvark turns over a new leaf 2011-04-02T01:31:16Z

Rhyme after rhyme, he knew how to deliver the double catharsis we feel whenever we laugh at our own existential anger. Perspective | Young Dolph’s heaviest rhymes made this lethal world feel lighter 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

With little rhyme or reason, the character drives cross-country in search of a Nazi fugitive who humiliated his parent in a concentration camp. 'This Must Be the Place': Rocker's tale strikes too many sour notes 2012-11-08T21:06:08Z

The most significant word, "me", is the one that has no rhyme. Poem of the week: Words by Edward Thomas 2013-02-25T10:51:18Z

Despite a fresh band offering dense rock, Young's a lazy lyricist throughout, as if he scribbled rhyming couplets in a rush, minus an editor or a rewrite. Neil Young's in protest mode on 'The Monsanto Years' 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

In Agatha Christie’s mystery, 10 people are trapped on an island, murdered one by one according to the sinister instructions derived from sinister nursery rhyme. What’s on TV Monday: The First Presidential Debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

In the original German the interlocking rhymes have the simple mnemonic power of devotional verses for the layman; each stanza ends with a rhyming couplet exhorting the reader to compassion. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

It was also good news for fans of rhyming couplets. Oscars 2014: Inside the Rhyming “Let It Go” Acceptance Speech 2014-03-03T20:30:03Z

Their haunted carnival menace and hangman knells have largely given way to a psychotropic Cypress Hill lounge shuffle, too, over which Domo Genesis doesn't so much spit rhymes as drool them. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All – review 2013-07-02T18:29:27Z

On "Life," he's spitting rhymes about his ex-wife, Kelis - like the soulful "Bye Baby" - his daughter on "Daughters" and his childhood on "A Queens Story." AP music writers' top 10 albums of the year 2012-12-13T14:50:11Z

The dialogue snaps with playful alliteration, repetition and puns, even rhymes that punch up lines rather than overpower them. Review: ‘black odyssey’ Sails Through Black Past and Present 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z

"In sweet pictures and cheerful rhymes, a loving extended family celebrates all the wonderful features of their beloved baby." Top 10 books for babies 2012-05-26T03:53:36Z

He also manages to achieve in a rhyme what would otherwise take a scene of dialogue. Review: A Pageant of Love and Antisemitism, in ‘Parade’ 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Children can follow three young students from the American Ballet Theater Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School as they undertake the author’s rhyming journey, which begins with “A is for arabesque …” 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z

There are other droll effects: synchronised dance routines for wheelchairs; characters jumping through floorboards on to the stage; a few perky rhyming couplets and some neck-twistings which are accompanied by sickeningly loud clicks. Hamlet; A Number; Enlightenment; Faust 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z

Sometimes there are dueling or rhyming light sources, as in a portrait of a vintage Chevrolet outside a small-town Arizona hotel. At the Corner Store, Goertel’s photos make a splash without the flash 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

When Yeats's rhyming system doesn't work in music, I've flipped the lines around, as long as I don't change the meaning. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z

He was equally impressive as a sonero — a singer who can improvise rhymes and melodies over Afro-Caribbean dance rhythms — and a romantic crooner, delivering suave, smoldering boleros. Cheo Feliciano, Debonair Salsa Singer, Dies at 78 2014-04-19T05:31:10Z

Mr. Chappelle did not quote the late Phife Dawg, but you could all but hear one of his classic rhymes between the lines: “I never let a statue tell me how nice I am.” The Best and Worst of the Grammys 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

The author - whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel - created a string of imaginative characters and wrote tales in an infectious rhyming style. 'Lost' Dr Seuss tales to go on sale 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Ratking — two rappers and two electronics players — delivered its rhymes in an nearly impenetrable fog of crackly, sputtering noise. Critic’s Notebook: Cacophonous Declarations of Independents 2012-10-22T03:57:17Z

Still running — deadline Monday night, March 2: our “Balliol rhyme” contest. Style Invitational Week 1373: Prime time for creative product reviews 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z

Seattle did not evolve from “some city they still think rhymes with beetle” into a red-hot center of progress and opportunity without an element of sub rosa corruption. Books of The Times: ?Truth Like the Sun,? by Jim Lynch 2012-04-08T22:00:45Z

Part of the reason for that is Stickles seeing no rhyme or reason in musical elitism. “It’s OK to always be a loser”: Patrick Stickles reveals the secrets of Titus Andronicus 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Seeger’s discography runs to dozens of albums: topical songs, Mother Goose rhymes, banjo instruction, African songs, lullabies, blues, Civil War songs, Spanish Civil War songs and far more. Pete Seeger, 1919-2014: A Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s 2014-01-29T02:31:11Z

These writers see poetry not in terms of perfect rhymes but as a boundless form of expression and communication. New kids’ books reflect the diversity of writing in verse 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

It sees the respected rapper trading in his typically clever rhyming skills for a much more toned down, soft form of singing. Paul McCartney Is Making New Music...With Kanye West 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

I am weary of the words with every stilted “ooya” rhyme. Style Invitational Week 1463: Fork over some (new) spoonerisms 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

There’s a plotline buried deep inside Super Smash Bros Brawl, but it makes not a lick of sense, pairing characters without rhyme or reason apart from how their powers might combine most niftily. All mixed up: Ready Player One's pop-culture crossovers are just empty nostalgia 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The changing energies of the score are part of the spell; these are tunes you sing as you leave the theater — they feel as familiar as nursery rhymes. Review: Dancing Chickens and a Real Pony in American Ballet Theater’s Comic Pastoral 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

More recent Geologic rhymes suggest a less didactic future for Blue Scholars. A big three days for Blue Scholars 2010-03-29T20:46:00Z

The deep pleasure for the reader is to trace resonances, how themes chime and rhyme as well as Halliday’s underlying, beautifully articulated arguments about fiction’s possibilities and obligations. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

From the joyless frenzy of its opening number — which rhymes “velvet rope” with “grind and grope” — “This Ain’t No Disco” wears its retributive grimness like a suffocating, Lycra spandex shroud. Review: A Dirge for Wilting Salad Days in ‘This Ain’t No Disco’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

While little ones giggle over scenes like this, their parents will be amused by wry numbers like “Piggy Patrol,” whose rhymes seem destined to end in four-letter words but veer off into completely innocent lyrics. Spare Times for Children for June 14-20 2013-06-13T22:44:20Z

In the Q Brothers' rhyming, jiving, unpretentious treatment, Much Ado is recast as a celebration of soppy summer love, and a sassy dismissal of the Nothings we put in its way. Funk It Up About Nothin' - review 2011-04-12T23:05:00Z

Translating Brecht is no easy task, especially in the early rhyming poems that borrow their form from Dante and Shakespeare. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Well, this here is a humor contest, and we like rhyme, and so instead of being accused of misusing the term “tanka,” we’ll just say we created a new genre. Style Invitational Week 1095: The best/worst of the good ideas/bad ideas

There's similar lack of regality to the Cramps' rockin' Queen of Pain, a glorious ode to a spanking dominatrix, which sees Lux Interior rhyme the title with "These marks will be hard to explain." Readers recommend: songs about queens 2012-06-07T15:28:41Z

"The books have color drawings and have some rhymes," she said. LGBT children's books face possible ban in Texas public library 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

The lights turned low, Mr. Dunn prepared a sample of the Chi-Lites “Have You Seen Her” for Mr. Durant to lay rhymes over. How Kevin Durant Became Silicon Valley’s Hottest Start-up 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Since the English words need not conform exactly to Mozart’s melodic lines, Mr. McClatchy is free to write translations that adhere more closely to the original imagery, meaning and rhyme scheme. Critic?s Notebook: How Opera Challenges Translators 2010-12-24T21:45:45Z

Drawing thematic rather than chronological connections among vignettes, his movies teem with rhymed moments and found metaphors. Need an Essential Chronicler of America? Try This Nonfiction Master 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

It would be easy enough for Kahn to treat him as a villain, but instead he suggest a witty comparison between Koons and an artist whose last name happens to rhyme with his. Review: ‘The Price of Everything’ Asks $56 Billion Questions About Art 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

His rhymes over the Gaga a capella were great fun, but they were really only an excuse to unleash that chorus on the crowd. Tinie Tempah at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-27T12:37:00Z

He pointed out that it was written in rhyming verse, like a song. The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a message in a bottle, a piece of forgotten pop culture that suggests, as Mark Twain once put it, that history may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

"This is so hard to do as a lyricist," he said, discussing Gershwin's use of three-syllable rhymes. Radio review: They Write the Songs 2011-03-16T07:59:01Z

She imbues the book’s numerous poetic extracts with lyricism and devotedly preserves the rhymes and cadences of its proverbs. The First Arabic Novel to Win the International Booker Prize 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

He said, ‘I need you to write me some rhymes because we going in the studio.’ They took Grandmaster Caz’s rhymes without giving him credit. Now, he’s getting revenge. 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Such antic eruptions of id became more prominent in Season 3, replacing the signature bits from previous seasons in which Issa, an amateur rapper, rhymes at herself in the mirror. Issa Rae’s Breakthrough in “Insecure” Season 3, Episode 4 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

Perhaps another reason it works so well is that "pledge" rhymes with a word never used in the poem, but, all the same, subliminally haunting it: "fledge." Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z

It’s a switch-up from the rhymes that are happening, and it’s more your traditional thing. With ‘In the Heights,’ Jimmy Smits Sings a Little but Gave It a Lot 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

His double entendre about Alana getting her own taste of Hannibal, along with the rhyme “spitters are quitters”, is actually the most disgusting part of the episode. Hannibal recap: season three, episode five – Contorno 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

So we just kinda started gettin’ into rhyming, because we were really into it. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

In the first setting, the poet addresses those who hear in his “scattered rhymes” the sighs that fed his heart when he was carefree, a different man from today. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

“Waterfall” is a clutch of nonsense rhymes seemingly aimed at a small child. New Music: Albums From Pink, Dwight Yoakam and Aimee Mann 2012-09-17T22:14:32Z

But he delivered this year with an album that was a throwback to the beats that dominated hip-hop when New York was king of the rap game, and of course, Nas' rhymes. AP music writers' top 10 albums of the year 2012-12-13T14:50:11Z

So it’s lucky that Ms. Reichel’s production steps lively from song to song and that Mr. Mills’s Porter-style pastiche tunes have jaunty rhythms and internal rhymes to spare. ‘The Underclassman’ Is Based on Early Fitzgerald 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

But while his rhymes could be elemental, his zippy, throbbing production — an unending pulse that verged on the erotic — felt like the future. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

That’s the time for a rhyme amusing; Style—laugh through all your losing. Style Invitational: Do over the do-over — enter any of the year’s contests 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

These rhymes are often stealthy, and just as often they flash like turn signals. Books of The Times: Stealthy Insights Amid Short Phrases 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z

The book unfolds in vignettes organized according not to chronology but to the recondite rhymes, repetitions and echoes that Dodge observes winding through his life. Is There Cosmic Meaning in Life’s Randomness? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Do you think that having someone write rhymes for you is necessarily at odds with being an authentic artist? Rick Ross Talks New Album, Adele Remix and His Love of Pears 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

In an era of meticulous musical craftsmanship, Ira not only chose the slangy “I got” over “I’ve got” but dared to write a chorus that contained no rhymes. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

YG will bring his cutting rhymes to Irving Plaza as part of a national tour. Pop & Rock Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

I think anybody that insists on the presence of rhyme is really not thinking hard enough about what poetry is or can be. Top 10 tips for writing poetry 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z

Still, “The Smuggler” has more issues than how violently it strong-arms the word “hyperbole” into an exact rhyme with “today.” ‘The Smuggler’ Review: A Barman’s Rambling Yarn 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

They consist of a few black lines and a daub of color, to which are attached a few doggerel rhymes. Valentines, Vengeful and Comic, Through an Antique Lens 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

It’s a thoughtful drama and a hilarious farce, a play popping with rhymed couplets and earthy ­f-bombs. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

“I believe people who write in rhythm and rhyme kind of evolve toward that style,” he said. Tram conductor gives Tlingit lessons on ride 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

It also means that he is required to perform not one, but two dances of assignation with various would-be lovers, with whom he banters in excruciating rhymed couplets. Review: Dirty Dancing to Henry James in ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

It has a good script from Lucy Kirkwood which trips naturally, rhymingly along with a tart turn of phrase. The House Where Winter Lives; Hansel and Gretel; Pinocchio – review 2012-12-30T00:06:25Z

For each poem, Hafez responded to a given topic—say, Presidential elections—then collected rhyming words from within the database and strung them together using its ever-improving neural networks. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

She shows particular flair when it comes to tricky challenges such as song rhymes: "His double chin hung round his paunch like a lifebelt on a motor-launch." Nowhere Ending Sky by Marlen Haushofer – review 2013-07-13T07:30:01Z

The lyrics include “If you were the mountains, I’d be the sun,” and “If you were a poet, I’d be the rhyme.” Off the Registry: Homemade Wedding Gifts 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

Bri’s rhymes sound more like spoken word poetry than the no-holds-barred battle rap that the film is continuously saying she, the daughter of a revered slain rapper, has in her DNA. ‘On the Come Up’ Review: Battle Rap’s Next Big Thing? 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

“That’s the last night I spend at your house,” he complains, and without stopping the piano, he asks himself, “What rhymes with house?” Alone in the Studio in 1983, Prince Is Revealed 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

The text is written in pugnacious, witty, and whimsical rhyming verse, which the cast performs with a lyrical vigor that doesn’t jingle or trot but flows with the mighty current of heightened, emblematic speech. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

In a way, Azalea’s desire to rhyme her way to superstardom felt like proof of hip-hop’s vitality as a global pop dialect. White echoes: Rap, race and Iggy Azalea 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

But rhyme may also be out of place for a given character. ArtsBeat: In Praise of a Bernstein Flop And Other Answers to Your Musicals Questions 2010-12-07T22:19:00Z

If you’re a battle rapper on the block, the emcee battle challenger, not writing your rhymes could really hurt you. Rick Ross Talks New Album, Adele Remix and His Love of Pears 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

In public appearances, the sisters express their individuality while dressing cohesively, often in the same brand or with rhyming textures and color palettes. The Funny Woman’s Stylist 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

This little poem could be a medieval lyric: it could be a nursery rhyme or a carol. Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z

But these are strange times, and the lanky redhead whose first name rhymes with “tonal” has been stuck in his apartment for weeks. Domhnall Gleeson doesn’t fit the celebrity mold, and he’s completely fine with that 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

Whole generations of theater composers and lyricists could be thrown off their game by bouts of Sondheim Syndrome: the desire to write with his uncanny rhyming panache or emulate his vast knowledge of music history. Perspective | There will never be another Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

The curious emphases in Mr. Sheeran’s rhyme schemes read as unusually lumpy in the hands of such a polished group. Critic’s Notebook: One Direction Rides Boy Band Wave With ‘Take Me Home’ 2012-11-14T17:42:27Z

But now she is back with an ambitious, self-financed new project - Leave Your Sleep, a double album whose lyrics are entirely taken from old poems, nursery rhymes and lullabies. Talking Shop 2010-04-12T15:31:00Z

But Hollinghurst's translation, swapping Racine's rhyming alexandrine couplets for blank verse, avoids that by rendering the play in clear, simple language. Berenice – review 2012-10-02T23:48:56Z

They are summoned by the nursery rhyme sung by the children, or drawn by the green glow of Tippi Hedren's matching skirt and jacket, or maybe lured by the pungent scent of her lit cigarette. My favourite Hitchcock: The Birds 2012-07-31T17:10:30Z

Molière's verse plays are written entirely in Alexandrines: 12-syllable rhyming couplets. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z

Surely we seemed as exotic to them as they sometimes did to us, not least when R. P. started rhyming. My Cousin, the Cowboy Poet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

His initial approach to a beat is melodic and rhythmic, finding a cadence that suits his voice, an energy level at which the vocals will be delivered, and maybe a rhyme scheme. Into the Wild With Kanye West 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z

We agreed that there are some songs where “fire” could only ever be the key rhyme. This is the laziest rhyme in all of songwriting history — and great artists use it all the time 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

His slack enunciation gives him tremendous technical flexibility, allowing him to rhyme “bulletproof” with “pinnacle,” for instance. Future is now 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The two share a definite resemblance, but the younger Mr. Bennett has an engagingly loose approach to rhyme and a gravelly vocal register that set him apart from his celebrated sibling. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

The rhyming text is also a kind of wicked homage to Seuss: Michael Ian Black says his Trump kids’ book was inspired by Hillary Clinton 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

Emcee first, meaning, like, I can really rhyme for real. Q&A with Doug E. Fresh: How the rapper and producer became the Human Beat Box 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

And traditionally The Style Invitational has a big fat concept of rhyme. Style Invitational Week 1148: It’s TankaWanka II 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

After years and years of countless rappers praising Trump’s self-made billionaire image in rhyme, “FDT” served as a corrective measure, balancing brash insults with a lucid warning. Perspective | It’s a brave new world. Why is our protest music stuck in the past? 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

London's Millennium Bridge - which made headlines when it opened in 2000 because it was wobbly - now features some intriguing noises and music, from voices to nursery rhymes to church bells. AUDIO: Music and voices for Millennium Bridge 2012-08-31T06:09:05Z

When their mother and stepfather argued, they hid in their room, writing rhymes and producing beats. Out of Left Field, but Swinging Hard 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

The darker finale juxtaposes swirling violin figurations with both plainchant and a German nursery rhyme declaimed by the orchestral players. LSO/Gergiev 2010-05-17T21:45:00Z

This is a variant on ballad measure, which is to say the stanza rhymes abcb and alternates tetrameter and trimeter phrasings. When Did Poetry Speak to Us? When We Were Very Young 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

But I think it’s because the Streets gave me license to think about rhyming rhythmically with an English accent as being quite an English thing. The 1975’s Matty Healy Is Still Trying to Be Funny, Sincerely 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The rhymes on the tombstones may be "uncouth", the inscriptions basic, yet by emphasising the importance of text, of lettering and naming, the poet is reinforcing his earlier argument. Poem of the week: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 2011-01-17T10:17:14Z

“Frank Mills,” one of the most touching songs in“Hair,” avoids rhyme altogether. ArtsBeat: In Praise of a Bernstein Flop And Other Answers to Your Musicals Questions 2010-12-07T22:19:00Z

The deceptively casual rhymes, mingling sociopolitical observations with lusty chronicles, still sound as smart and far-reaching as they did 17 years ago. Music Review: Hip-Hop History, Recreated by Those Who Made It 2010-08-29T23:06:00Z

Mr. Chomsky may be the hero of the play, but it’s Karl Marx who bats intellectual cleanup, with a 21st-century rap update of “The Communist Manifesto” that somehow rhymes “Tannenbaum” with “Amazon.” Noam Chomsky, Elon Musk and Ayn Rand Walk Into a Puppet Show 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

With that in mind, try to avoid games or songs where a rhyme must be found for your name. What to Expect When Your Name is Charlotte 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Bored with entertaining their kids with the usual car-journey fodder on the stereo – Ten Green Bottles, Hey Diddle Diddle, Venus in Furs – they decided to record an album's worth of alternative nursery rhymes. New band of the day ? The Crayonettes (No 856) 2010-08-27T15:13:00Z

The atmosphere is deliciously muted and studious, with the rhymes "desk"/ "dusk" conjuring the unspoken word, "subfusc". Poem of the week: The Seasons by Derek Mahon 2011-03-07T11:09:38Z

After five more lines of rhyming, Mr. Solomonow wrote that the new city rules “assess compensation for the public revenue forfeited by the private use” of empty parking spaces. City Bills Shakespeare in the Parking Lot for Summer Use 2013-06-19T21:30:36Z

The title’s spelling aberration, in which “lost” gets tweaked to rhyme with “note,” is a clue. Pulling back for the big picture of media overload 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

The rhymes of “Alexander Hamilton,” the opening number from “Hamilton,” are rejiggered to introduce Broadway’s reigning king, whose Tony-winning show has become one of the hottest tickets in the land. 'Spamilton': Musical spoof lands its punches softly, and with a smile 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Her family has been a great support and inspiration, she says, particularly Malcolm who does a first reading of her new work in a "Dylan Thomas-y voice" to check that the rhymes work. Real life ugly beasts inspire new book by 'Gruffalo' author Donaldson 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

The music, supplied by the onstage DJ Supernova, pulses with life, and the cascading rhymes of the lyrics are often inspired. Review: ‘Othello’ Goes Hip-Hop. There’s Humor, Too. 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Full of forced rhymes and clunky couplets, and all the better for it, Cheryl Tweedy captures the mundane depression of being forced reflect on a life stuck in the doldrums. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-05-30T10:35:02Z

This bird, by another, shorter name, supplies the implied and rhyming first word of the movie title, which seems fairly obvious, in a fourth- grade-class kind of way. Review: The Kids Are All Right in ‘Blockers.’ The Parents Are Dopes. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

You can almost always feel the straining for lapidary brilliance while you listen, especially when he crams the rhymes together, as in this from How Long Has This Been Going On?: Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z

Cole shows improvement as a producer and lyricist, spitting rhymes with honesty and clarity throughout the 16 tracks, which include two entertaining skits and two interludes. Review: J. Cole is superb on sophomore album 2013-06-17T19:13:08Z

When my mom told me to put my coat on, those words rhymed. Talking right: I lost my Appalachian accent to fit in. Now I want it back 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

“How many times can you do that? How many times must I force myself to rhyme bed with head?” A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

There’s also Bing Crosby improvising a monologue about liverwurst sandwiches, some bombs falling on World War II Europe, and legendary composer Irving Berlin painting himself into lyrical corners resolved by rhyming “finger” with “humdinger.” Perspective | How I learned to stop worrying and love ‘White Christmas’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Today’s winner goes a giant step further: It rearranges all three verses of the carol “Away in a Manger” — that’s 432 individual letters in its 116 words — into the rhyming poem below. Style Invitational Week 1416: The Year in Redo, Part 2 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z

It went on to criticize Ms. Goose’s rhymes and other choices. Charlotte Pomerantz, Inventive Children’s Book Author, Dies at 92 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

And Last: Though they be without rhyme or reason, I write the best limericks and tweets Cause I ignore the rules Which are only for others. Style Invitational Week 1280: A la‘ugh’ a minute with our ‘air quotes’ contest 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

His flash doesn't come via braggadocio but by way of deft wordplay, creative rhymes, everyday observations and laser precision. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z

On the 2011 track Not Going Back, he rhymed about himself: “Black dudes assume I’m closeted or kinda gay / White people confused like girl on Glee and Gabourey.” Donald Glover: how the star of Atlanta proved that I too could be cool 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

There is no rhyme or reason, however, to his inconsistent set of skills and powers. ‘Violent Night’ Review: Yucks, Not Yule 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

He made no bones about wanting poems that rhymed, told stories, spoke in plain English. Poetry magazine well-versed in criticism 2011-06-20T21:14:00Z

The nonsense lyrics were replaced with nursery rhymes and the rhythms were shifted to make the song less stereotypical and more authentically Native American. Ugg-A-Wha? Updating Stereotypes in 'Peter Pan' 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

In the cork groves shadows rhyme with their sources. White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

But for me, I think it’s “Listen to Tom Berenger” because, for these reasons: it doesn’t really rhyme, and it’s trying to pull all our stories together in a perfect dovetail at the end. 'Kimmy Schmidt' composer Jeff Richmond on the show's viral-friendly songs 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

I discovered rhyme and began to write poetry. Colm Tóibín 2013-02-19T18:17:50Z

That meant almost daily work in the studio: listening to records from all sorts of hip-hop scenes, trying out different rhyme patterns and melodies, seeing which sounded best on Rocky. ASAP Yams, Partner to Hip-Hop’s ASAP Rocky 2013-01-25T13:00:00Z

Even more than his rhymes, his stylized delivery was what made him so individualistic. Review: Governors Ball Is Ruled by Women 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z

It's rhyming and is about a mother hen protecting her chicks from the big bad fox. Six Little Chicks by Jez Alborough - review 2012-10-03T11:00:00Z

There is no talk of syllables or rhymes. Speaking Truth, Beautifully, to Shattered Young People 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

There is no particular rhyme or reason to Broadway being busier for one sex or the other; rather, it’s all about commercially viable shows. Please, No More Mr. Bad Guy Roles! (But Creepy Is Fine) 2010-02-20T04:23:00Z

Square eyes Cam'ron's also rhymed over themes from Magnum PI, Night Court, Facts of Life and more. Wale's Seinfeld tribute mixtape 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

He sings in a false British accent with a thin and earnest voice, and values an exact rhyme over fresh language, as if he wants to sound like a high-school poet. Critics? Choice: New Cds: The Droll, Buzzing Grandpas of Rap 2011-05-02T19:51:31Z

Kraftwerk turn nursery rhymes and lullabies into pop after all, which marvel and wonder at the new world around them. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night three: Trans-Europe Express 2013-02-10T11:36:08Z

Ray Davies gets points for rhyming “June” with “gloom,” “tomb” and “doom” — no moons and spoons for this guy, thank you very much! Moons, Junes and 7 Summer Tunes 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

And I thought if he'd taken another 10 seconds to come up with a better rhyme, the song would be so much better. Q&A: Humorist Dave Barry 2010-05-14T08:00:00Z

The words dominate and spill out of song forms so freely that you lose a conventional sense of structure and in some cases even of rhyme and meter, for the sake of specificity. Music Review: Audra McDonald at Lincoln Center 2013-05-10T21:59:41Z

And if you have plans to travel to the World Cup in 2022, keep in mind that the host country, Qatar, does not rhyme with “guitar.” | The Geopolitics of Name-Dropping 2014-03-12T22:00:59Z

From the French symbolist poet Paul Fort she learned a technique of writing "polyphonic prose" – prose which used the different voices of poetry, such as "metre, vers libre, assonance, alliteration, rhyme and return". Poem of the week: In a Garden by Amy Lowell 2013-07-29T10:12:18Z

In Week 1329 we asked for Shakespeare “tailgaters” — rhyming couplets in which you pair a line from the Bard with one of your own. Style Invitational Week 1333: Check your (homo)phones 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

But faced with a Molière text – with its characters so clearly drawn and its plot, though often creaking, still believable within the context of the world he created – I was free to concentrate on rhyme. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z

Glück, whose name rhymes with the word “click,” has written numerous poetry collections, many of which deal with the challenges of family life and growing older. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

What We Say “It’s hard to say what’s funnier: the many rhyming jokes or the stage business, which includes an ‘Open Sesame,’ ‘Shut Sesame’ routine that’s like ‘Who’s on First’ in ancient Arabia. 5 Shows for Under 5 Hamiltons 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Plus, as Knight explained, Ghazvininejad’s team came up with some clever innovations, such as telling the computer to pick the last word of each line first, then plucking rhyming pairs that seemed topically similar. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

His catchphrase is "Go ahead, make me gay", because "gay" rhymes with "day" and also – get this – Brody's Dirty Harry is gay! InAPPropriate Comedy – the most willfully offensive movie of 2013 2013-03-27T15:11:23Z

No one can say how much the new season, which premières tonight, will rhyme with ongoing discoveries about Russian hacking and Team Trump. Who Is Loving “The Americans”? 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

"For real. name of male star rhymes with Madam Panhandler hahahaha I die." Rose McGowan: Don't tell me to wear a push-up bra to a job interview (P.S. I read good too) 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

In fact, “Jayden” is part of an entire rhyming name family that has defined the sound of a generation for American boys. What Was, Is and Will Be Popular 2013-09-06T22:52:30Z

His rhymes take unanticipated turns, and he loves to hover over the same syllable, dropping it over and over from different angles. Gucci Mane, Buff, Sober, Out of the Pen and Ready to Flow 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

The routine started with a Delorean ride and ended with a fast-paced cha-cha that got the crowd cheering and the judges jeering, well not really, but it rhymes. 'Dancing With the Stars' Watch: It's Movie Night With Kevin Hart 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Both women gain in the exercise, in part because of the historical rhymes, in part because of a loving correspondence complete with hand grenades. Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Legacy Left to Byron’s Wife and Daughter 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Playing behind this scene is Timber Timbre’s dreamily evocative “Demon Host,” which incorporates some of the words from the old nursery rhyme “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple.” Stories We Tell: Sarah Polley’s Meta Masterpiece 2013-05-10T03:30:03Z

Kanye keeps looking for new angles, both lyrically and in rhyming cadence, while Jay-Z seems more like he's comfortable taking aim, firing and hitting. Jay-Z and Kanye West: Watch the Throne ? track-by-track review 2011-08-02T16:29:41Z

When it came out the rhymed narrative was, literally, banned in Boston for its depiction of a licentious vaudevillian couple who throw a bash that ends in an eruption of jealousy and murder. Good bets for summer theater in Seattle 2013-08-01T21:37:37Z

But as it moves along, it approaches Sondheimian complexity, and not just because “goddess” and “bodice” make a fantastic rhyme. How a Jerry Herman Song Landed a Triple Punch 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z

There’s an in-the-moment urgency to his visceral rhymes, dismissing obtrusive opinions from non-Black people and affirming his resolution to keep his foot on the gas. Seattle musicians tell the stories of our historic year through song 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z

At the time of the rhyme's publication, she said, "Milton was much more famous for his politics and having sanctioned regicide than he was as a poet". Did John Milton write filthy, innuendo-laden rhyme? 2010-09-22T15:56:00Z

In the interim, he had thrilled the community with one of the great rhymed cameos ever put to tape, on Big Sean's "Control." Kendrick Lamar is an essential voice for Los Angeles and beyond 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

He operates at arm’s length from the listener, a self-styled godfather who never seems to break a sweat as he rhymes rings around his inferior would-be competition. Album review: 'Watch the Throne' a royal waste 2011-08-08T21:59:00Z

He preceded it with a rhymed catalog of the names of his 100 biggest musical influences, spanning every genre. Music Review: New York Cabaret Convention at Rose Theater, Lincoln Center 2012-10-18T21:53:33Z

Of course, songs also have to rhyme, jokes have to be funny, and cultural references have to be legible to an audience of foreign children. Translating 'Frozen' Into Arabic 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

But the music in Spider-Man is deadening in its mediocrity, tuneless and forgettable, with rhymes that rarely employ words of more than one syllable. Not kerCHING, just thud 2011-02-14T21:35:14Z

This debut collection joins the pantheon that includes Shel Silverstein — short, clever, funny poems written specifically for children, with rhythm and rhyme that deliver jolts of happiness to all ages. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

He was praised for his bold and startling rhymes and for the dynamism of his rhythms. Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z

The "chickens/ dickens" rhyme is fun, and the line sounds effortless, as a colloquial expression should. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z

“All life on Earth is connected through all time. The architecture and narrative rhyme in a way they didn’t before,” Starrs said. The dinos are coming (in another 18 months)! Natural History Museum returns first fossil to gallery 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Additionally, Eminem takes Cooper through the rhyming process and to his hometown of Detroit, Michigan. Eminem says foul language has no place at home 2010-10-08T20:13:00Z

There are many types of cinematic cockney – they're not merely one-dimensional east Londoners, born with rhyming dictionaries stored away in their loaves of bread. Clip joint: cockneys 2013-06-26T10:50:38Z

Martin’s “Song of Ice and Fire” series all retold in Dr. Seuss’s well-known rhyming scheme. Game of Thrones Dr. Seuss Mashup Reimagines 'Oh The Places You'll Go' 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Theater posters, illustrations and other graphics feature sylphic nudes whose lithe figures rhyme with arabesque linear patterns. Art Review: ‘Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna,’ at Neue Galerie 2013-06-06T21:38:06Z

Mark Twain, who was known more for his sense of humor than his diplomatic skills, once said, "History does not repeat itself. But it rhymes." Henry Kissinger's 'World Order' is a timely warning 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

While Legend's chorus provides uplifting gospel sweep, Common's rhymes can be hard-hitting. For Oscar nominee Common, 'Glory' had to be majestic and radical 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Its show is so lighthearted and loose that it’s easy to miss the complex rhymes and the deep respect for hip-hop’s past. Critic?s Notebook: Reliving Rap?s Down-and-Dirty Early Days 2011-02-12T00:00:15Z

In creating the piece, much of which is written in rhymed couplets, Mr. Gardley drew on history, literature, interviews with community members and his own vexed experiences with the police. Theater Review: ‘The Box,’ at Irondale Center, Depicts Prison Life 2014-05-02T21:26:17Z

I threw a bunch of rhymes on the table and said, ‘Say this, say this and say that.’ They took Grandmaster Caz’s rhymes without giving him credit. Now, he’s getting revenge. 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

"Textured collage illustrations show a variety of animals stomping, creeping and clapping their way through this rhyming action tale." 10 great books for great babies 2011-05-21T01:42:06Z

This giddy production number, a playful attempt to initiate a dance craze like the Continental and the Carioca, rhymes the title with “casino,” “bambino,” “vino” and “scallopino.” Review: ‘All Dancing! All Singing! Irving Berlin in Hollywood,’ a Lighter-Than-Air Revue 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

To me in 1983, aged five, it was a perfect nursery rhyme. The best No 1 records: Culture Club – Karma Chameleon 2012-05-31T20:29:00Z

That script, a series of rhymed couplets barnacled with topical quips, “was so impenetrably difficult,” she said. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

In your biography of Merrill you write, “When it works, the Ouija board produces a pleasingly double sensation of surprise and inevitability, like an effective rhyme or witty remark.” About That Ouija Board: How Langdon Hammer Summoned a Poet’s Spirit 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

They appear and disappear with no rhyme or reason but plenty of overripe prose. Booker club: The Famished Road 2011-01-20T13:46:07Z

Their straightforward, intimate rhymes about everyday “girl” topics—feelings, relationships—are insightful and familiar. The New Face of Rap: Young, Female and Ready to Blog 2012-05-30T10:45:30Z

The sprightly meter of the text abounds with exact rhymes and slant rhymes, as well as playful consonance, assonance and alliteration, carrying along the play’s stream-of-consciousness-styled progression of ideas. Review: Bringing Borges to Life in ‘Footnote for the End of Time’ 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

Mürer's poem is open to the comic spirit, but also uses the rhyme scheme's potential for generating serious ideas – and narrative. Chain Ghazal: Chickens by Esther Greenleaf Mürer 2013-03-18T12:33:15Z

Mr. Beal can write lyrics that click along with internal rhymes and strong images. New Music: 2 Chainz, Arctic Monkeys and Keith Urban Release New Albums 2013-09-09T22:11:48Z

One of them rhymes "Sambuca" with "rebuke her", which is impossible to dislike. Isy Suttie ? review 2011-08-23T18:15:00Z

Lamar’s raspy rhymes extol the virtues of weed, women, tequila and the laid-back Cali lifestyle. Pitchfork Day 3: Vampire Weekend, Ty Segall, Kendrick Lamar (and Lady Gaga?) 2012-07-16T05:11:00Z

He shows it off in the density of his rhymes, but mostly in his rhythms and melodies: few rappers are as comfortable with shifting gears mid-flow, and even fewer sound so at ease doing so. Chance the Rapper Releases ‘Coloring Book,’ With Spirit 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

I remember with equal satisfaction his clever wordplay in “The Liar,” based on a play by Pierre Corneille, and the dexterity of his rhymes in “The Heir Apparent,” after the work of Jean-Francois Regnard. Review | You might think ‘panties’ in the title means the play’s funny. If only. 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

I also regret not bothering to learn any nursery rhymes, which explains why I’ve spent a full year purely singing Jingle Bells to you. Stuart Heritage: I could sit and watch you all day – sometimes I do 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

The soft sound of snapping fingers rippled through the audience at “Paradox of the Urban Cliché,” a thoughtful new play by Craig Grant, as a character named Smiles laid down her rhymes. Review: In ‘Paradox of the Urban Cliché,’ Verse Melts Into Drama 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

The poem's slant rhyming emphasises the way the present imperfectly echoes the past, with the four-fold "A" rhyme of each stanza nevertheless insisting on recurrence. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z

On top of this, the sensory curriculum I was subjected to became increasingly degrading: nursery rhymes, baby toys, and teachers talking to us like we were deaf toddlers. Experience: I talk with my eyes 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Because we know that it's fundamental to his entire worldview, watching Jackson straining to rhyme the words "spider" and "box" distils absurdism to an intoxicating potency. Jackson's Way ? review 2011-01-09T21:30:01Z

The first verse of "Planet Earth" features the lyrics, "I heard you making patterns rhyme / Like some New Romantic looking for the TV sound," which alludes to some suspicion about the movement. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

The refrain is mawkish and the rapping that surrounds it is worse — enough to rekindle the debate over whether Minaj should be channeling her life force to nasty rhymes or sweetly sung pop hooks. What we talk about when we talk about Nicki Minaj, ‘The Pinkprint’ and pop music as conversation fuel 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

As a rapper, she’s capable of grand technical feats, rapid cadence switching and complex rhyme patterns, but generally she puts those fireworks to the side when diving deep into her feelings. Review: Nicki Minaj’s ‘The Pinkprint’ 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

In that delectable book, Paul was having trouble writing the introduction to an anthology of rhyming poetry, while his mind skittered sideways over multifold topics, notably loneliness. Books of The Times: ‘Traveling Sprinkler’ Is Nicholson Baker’s New Novel 2013-09-09T21:31:25Z

In light of the recent agonizing over the use of ghostwriters in hip-hop, it’s worth noting that Dr. Dre has long been understood to use young talent to contribute to his rhymes. Review: ‘Compton,’ Dr. Dre’s First Album in 16 Years 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

Featuring the feminine wiles of the aforementioned Minaj, “Make Me Proud” is one of the few instances where the oddball Barbie’s bizarre inflections or controversial rhymes don’t overwhelm the track. Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait 2011-11-15T14:00:12Z

Call the child to be dandled with rhymes,livened with drum-talk, cuddled and calmedwith flutes and fiddles, anthems and psalmody.Welcome the child with a sky full of chimes. Carols for Christmas 2010-12-18T00:07:31Z

Mostly, though, he comes up short, delivering rhymes that on paper are clever and punchy, but on record are congested and monotone. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-11-22T23:10:00Z

He understood the approach that best suited him — the New York classicist style of hard rhyme jabs over production full of soul samples and snappy, firm drums — and never wavered. Sean Price, Rapper With Deep Brooklyn Roots, Dies at 43 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Mayor Koch was not out there on the floor at Danceteria, teaching a young Madonna her moves, or scribbling rhymes for Slick Rick, or guiding Basquiat’s paintbrush. Four More Zzzs for Snooze City 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

Her family has been a great support and inspiration, she says, particularly Malcolm who does a first reading of her new work in a "Dylan Thomas-y voice" to check that the rhymes work. Real life ugly beasts inspire new book by 'Gruffalo' author Donaldson 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

"Bold colors amplify the festive fun in this rhyming story about babies and toddlers enjoying a neighborhood celebration." 10 great books for great babies 2011-05-21T01:42:06Z

Where another key element, rhyme, is concerned, its very centrality to Mallarmé's aesthetic is what decided Manson against it. The Poems in Verse by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Peter Manson - review 2012-06-15T21:55:09Z

It’s a collection of chants and rhymes for children that I was given by my very conservative grandmother. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Loves Antiheroines. Of Course. 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Perky, affectionate and upbeat, “Applause” translated the arrogant stiletto thrust of Mankiewicz’s dialogue into the crowd-courting bounce of clunkily rhymed song. Falling in Love Again With ‘All About Eve’ 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

And to achieve the complex assemblage of rhyme, musical style, narrative playfulness, dance and emotional effect that conjoin in a number like “Satisfied.” One key scene helped cement ‘Hamilton’ as a Broadway legend. The team that crafted it explains how. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

Inspired by nursery rhymes and fairytales, this is sweetly subversive work that charms as much as it alarms. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

“Seven” opens with an ethereally lustrous vocal, with Swift sighing her lyrics, landing the rhymes in unexpected places. Taylor Swift, a Pop Star Done With Pop 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

Introducing the act from England, for the first time in 1963, Sullivan pronounces the second syllable to rhyme with “ham” rather than “some”. Morecambe & Wise in America: how the duo made it in the US 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

French officials are thus on the lookout for jihadi rhymes, but they also don’t want youth turning away from music altogether. The Music of Malcolm X 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Let the speculation begin on possible rhymes for the ripe, Anglo-Saxon words that are a staple of the Silverman vocabulary. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Only he's not a hirsute rocker or a podgy, superannuated pub crooner latterly and creepily making a living belting out nursery rhymes for adults. New band of the day – Dan Croll (No 1,390) 2012-11-08T16:38:00Z

As for rhyming “swarthy” with “friend of Dorothy,” that just about passes muster, but it’s as if all involved had settled for the second-best option and were still waiting for inspiration to strike. A London Musical With Energy to Burn, and Two Without It 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

Chief Keef raps in jabs and blocks, short bursts of rhymes that leave plenty of space for contemplation. Pop: Raw Rap: Waka Flocka Flame and Chief Keef 2012-06-10T04:23:03Z

He raps without breaking a sweat, making complicated rhymes sound easy. Music Review: Food on His Mind, and in His Stomach as Well 2011-07-26T21:45:30Z

On the other hand, with its reliance on memorable rhyming pairs and word families, “The Cat in the Hat,” beginning with its catchy title, accentuated for early readers how sound and symbol correspond. How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Sondheim wanted to show his abilities in rhyme on his edits on "I Feel Pretty," whose original lyric had been written by Laurent. Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

For many, the thought of medieval dining recalls “four and 20 blackbirds baked in a pie,” from the popular 18th century English nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence.” Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

It is an anonymous poem in rhyming couplets, informatively titled "Verses written over the chair of Ben Johnson, now remaining at Robert Wilson's at the signe of Johnson's Head in the Strand". Ben Jonson's chair 2013-07-04T10:00:01Z

When he broke through as a performer in 2006, his streetwise image and rhymes about the Miami gangster lifestyle seemed like references to a shady past. Using Rap Lyrics as Damning Evidence Stirs Legal Debate 2014-03-26T23:01:35Z

This is not a choice decided by the need for a rhyme, because the "a" line in the poem never rhymes. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

The song, expertly rhyming, is anchored to a very simple, almost novelty keyboard riff, with a baritone hummed hook propelling it; once you hear it, you never forget it. R.I.P, the list pop song: Missing the lost art of rock ‘n’ roll lyrical overload 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

The never-fulfilled expectation of rhyme is a suitable curse on any lonesome quartet of drinkers at any bar, a milieu that Auden calls "an unprejudiced space where nothing particular ever happens". On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

His rhyming, on the occasions he rhymes, is usually halfhearted, only occasionally revealing the finesse of which he was capable. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Graffoe doesn't serve up pastiches or rely on cheesy rhyme to get laughs – instead, his songs set him bizarre scenarios and pursue them to quietly logical yet brilliantly funny conclusions. This week's new live comedy 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

"Vessel" is more than beats and rhymes — Zavala's encyclopedic sampling and gorgeous guest vocals render a degree of musicality rare in not just hip-hop but pop music in general. New albums from Seattle bands: Hey Marseilles, Unnatural Helpers and more 2010-05-07T20:57:00Z

Shmurda, best known for "Hot Boy," a gritty hit song with rhymes about street violence, was sentenced to seven years in prison on charges he conspired with a drug gang in several shootings. 'Hot Boy' rapper Bobby Shmurda gets 7-year prison sentence 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Hall’s charming text proceeds in lightly cadenced lines that mostly rhyme: “Come now, Rest. Join our nest. Huddle and cuddle, the winter’s our test.” Facts About the Natural World Astound and Delight in These Picture Books 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

He's a writer's rapper, and recites his rhymes like a dramatic poetry reading, mindful of Eric G's tempo but free with his own rhythm. Friday Favorites: USF, Sax G Whiz, ????? 2010-08-27T17:09:00Z

Kelly, known as "Mac Daddy," and Chris Smith, known as "Daddy Mac," made up the 1990s child rap duo Kris Kross known for wearing their clothes backward as they rhymed. Atlanta funeral scheduled for Kris Kross rapper 2013-05-04T13:58:09Z

Instead of bearing down on lyrics to elucidate their meaning or to showcase a rhyme, she creates a complex character from whom words slide out as naturally as though they just popped into her mind. Music Review: The Cheeriness of Those Gershwin Boys 2011-01-27T22:43:45Z

Marcelo D2 declaimed his fast, forthright rhymes while many Brazilians in the audience rapped along with him, verse after articulate verse. Music Review: Paying Tribute to New York, by Way of Brazil 2011-07-25T21:43:14Z

Most of the song is a boast about his success, ambition, authenticity, leadership and greatness: “30 millions later, my future favors the hip-hop status of a legendary rhyme savior.” The Playlist: Kendrick Lamar Backs Up His Boasts 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Many Imagineers who worked on the attraction were honored in a mock cemetery at Disneyland bordering the ride queue, its gravestones etched with rhyming epitaphs. Disney’s Haunted Mansion at 50: The Ghosts Are Still Grinning 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

My work definitely speaks to his design; it rhymes well with it. An Artist’s Life in Objects, From a Warhol Print to a Postmodern Lamp 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

Michael Kennedy, a biographer and friend, recalled that he liked to pronounce “tone row,” impishly, as if it rhymed with “cow.” Vaughan Williams: Complicated, but Not Quite Conservative 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

This 1957 work by George Balanchine originally featured a square dance caller whose cracker-barrel rhymes underlined the American verve in the choreography’s approach to music by Vivaldi and Corelli. City Ballet Presents ‘Masters at Work’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

The Cat does rhyme at the end of adventures to reinforce science concepts, she said, because “Rhyme, as Ted learned, fixes things in the mind.” The Cat Comes Back, in the Name of Science 2010-08-28T02:52:00Z

Drakeo calls this stuff “nervous music,” but he ultimately sounds cool and conspiratorial, overloading his rhymes with insults so effortless and inventive that each song deserves its own glossary. Best music of 2018: Serpentwithfeet has a voice unlike any other 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Week 1171, take a line from a song, then add your own, rhyming line: With the thoughts I’d be thinkin’, I could be another Lincoln if I only had a brain. Style Invitational Week 1210: Bill Us Now — our ‘joint legislation’ contest 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

At one point, she listens to her children singing a nursery rhyme: Review | In ‘Here Is the Beehive,’ a philandering mother deals with the death of her lover 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

Nowadays, though, he's just the latest rapper to have burnished his reputation thanks to judicious deployment of the online mixtape, last year's releases earning him praise for both his rhymes and his realism. Freddie Gibbs: Str8 Killa 2010-09-30T22:59:00Z

If you put Herb Alpert in a blender with the Supremes and the Beastie Boys, you could not come up with a tastier cocktail of irresistible rhymes, beats and "the funkiest horn section in Metropolis." Ten Grammy nominees that don't suck 2011-02-12T17:10:00Z

The rhymes in Mr. Iconis’s lyrics feel like they might have been improvised on the spot by class-cutting stoners behind the gym. Review: Anxious Teenagers Learn to ‘Be More Chill’ on a Big Stage 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

It is a rhyming story and was very nice to read. Mum's Cronky Car by Anita Pouroulis - review 2012-11-17T12:00:00Z

First, rhyme has many functions in a theater lyric, one of which is to suggest urbanity, wit, or a degree of self-awareness on the part of the character who uses it. ArtsBeat: In Praise of a Bernstein Flop And Other Answers to Your Musicals Questions 2010-12-07T22:19:00Z

When she lightens up, it is to rhyme "piranha" with "piñata" on the standout Tongue Twister and to rally her fellow female MCs to action on Put Your Game Face On. Envy: Set Yourself on Fire 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z

Wenzel’s rhyming text begins: “Inside Cat knows many windows, finds a view wherever it goes. Wanders. Wonders. Gazes. Gapes. Sees the world through many shapes.” Opening the Door: 3 Picture Books Look at Life on the Other Side 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

That breeze leads to the kite-flyers, and rhymes building up as the wind strengthens. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z

Dolemite, his sedulously designed alter ego, can be thought of as an early influencer, his raunchy, rhyming patter a progenitor of ’80s rap, his rakish wardrobe conceived to captivate an avid following. Eddie Murphy’s Latest Look Is Ripe for Appropriation 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

The rhyme, meter and flow are not exactly Eminem-ian, but there are some laugh lines and smart insights. | ?The Canterbury Tales Remixed?: ?The Canterbury Tales Remixed? at SoHo Playhouse ? Review 2011-12-16T23:28:53Z

Yet if Ms. Franklin told you she was going to take a classic R&B song and throw in a little nursery rhyme, you’d be nervous. Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Much of the script is in blank verse, with a heady surfeit of expanding metaphors, lyrical soliloquies and discreetly rhymed couplets. Review: In ‘King Charles III,’ Glimpsing the Near Future of Monarchy 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Hill, who revived Fugees songs when Nas lent her his band, unleashed husky torrents of rhymes, as fast as any of the men. Critic’s Notebook: At the Electric Zoo and Rock the Bells Festivals 2012-09-03T22:49:01Z

Generally speaking, Ashbery’s work has some rhyme but absolutely no predictable rhyme scheme; his writing is rhythmic mostly at the points where he wants to underscore the sentiments in question. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z

Mark G. thought it was time To offer reasons why — in perfect, scannèd rhyme — Sherlock’s really a tough guy. A ‘Sherlock’ Creator Responds to a Critic in Verse 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Playing with quotations, stock phrases and nursery rhymes is a device he employs throughout – "Everywhere that Mary went/ dynasties collapsed amid gnashing of teeth." Quick Question by John Ashbery – review 2013-03-15T17:30:01Z

The actors are quite good at this: At one point, they toss off drolly awful rhyming poetry in response to poem titles invented by theatergoers. Skipping Yuletide cheer, Pointless Theatre offers a dour, profane sendup of the holiday

Marshall brilliantly figured out a way to make his lyrics rhyme even though they were silent: They rhymed by implication. The Princess and the Poconos 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z

In crisp, rhyming couplets and a rapt watchfulness salted with irony, Sullivan’s debut collection introduces a worldly poet whose frame of reference is effortlessly wide. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Korie’s libretto, though too reliant on rhymed couplets, mostly does a graceful job of highlighting story lines and conveying character. Music Review: Collegiate Choral, With Jane Fonda, in a Concert Version 2010-03-23T22:18:00Z

But people on the street can rattle off the rhymes without looking at these prompts; the poet’s words are still felt as keenly as though they were civil edicts. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

This echoes Burd’s real-life music: He delivers clever, agile rhymes, but part of the act is that he, a white geek with a Bob Ross ’do, is making the delivery. On ‘Dave,’ Lil Dicky Faces the Music 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

In contrast to the rococo lifestyle excesses often rhymed about by Jay-Z and his former protege, the stage set for their five-night run at the O2 as Watch the Throne is relatively minimal. Jay-Z and Kanye West – review 2012-05-26T23:05:46Z

Chanting in propulsive rhyme, for instance, comes naturally to very few of them. Theater Review: ‘Venice,’ by Eric Rosen and Matt Sax, Teems With Action 2013-06-14T03:18:01Z

Playwright Yee skewers stereotypes SiS delivers Yee satire The title depicts a negative ethnic stereotype, based on a nursery rhyme and left over from old Hollywood movies. Playwright Yee skewers stereotypes 2010-03-25T22:03:00Z

Many passages are essentially entire scenes set to music, with lyrics that rely less on ear-catching rhymes. Books of The Times: ?Look, I Made a Hat,? Stephen Sondheim Lyrics - Review 2011-12-08T23:09:14Z

At first when we started rhyming, we were still rhyming in the downtown, hardcore-type scene. Donna Summer: Disco diva and rocker 2012-05-18T01:26:00Z

Each rapper accelerates to hyperspeed for his final rhymes, while the music, by Trooko, cannily cranks up the tension and variation. The Playlist: Sharon Van Etten Comes Back Strong, and 11 More New Songs 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z

"I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only… Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks," joked the star of Happy Gilmore and The Wedding Singer. Sandler signs four-film Netflix deal 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Writing also afflicted me early; at age seven, I wrote a poem called The Little Red Fox that ran on for a couple of pages of doggerel rhyme. Rush: 'Our fans feel vindicated' 2011-03-24T21:29:01Z

The recitativo central movement, the work's "atonal serenade", though, rhymes with the Quintet's grief-stricken passages; as if this movement were the skull beneath the work's polystylistic skin. A guide to the music of Alfred Schnittke 2013-04-29T15:12:17Z

So memorable is the rhyming text of this one that, before too long, all I had to do was hold up the book and the children would recite it. Mal Peet's top 10 books to read aloud 2011-08-03T13:08:37Z

She addresses the audience in profanity-laced rhyming couplets that evoke the rollicking rhymes of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. A Green Light Is Given, It’s True, for a Grown-Up Cindy Lou Who 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

Like many of Pusha T’s songs, it features smart rhymes and plenty of pop culture references. Pusha T’s long path to solo stardom 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z

Catherine “was a brilliant woman reduced to one word in a rhyme,” said Raine, alluding to the ditty learned by British schoolchildren to remember Henry’s six wives: “Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.” Even a Powerful Queen First Must Survive Being a Teenager 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z

The writing is penetrating and clear, with subtle rhymes and simple lines that build toward sad epiphanies. Poets reflect on Ferguson, Obama, war and matters of the heart 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

Week 1171, pair a line of a song with your own rhyming line: Then nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started. Style Invitational: Inventing facts—a fake-trivia contest about inventions 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Glück — her surname rhymes with “click,” not “cluck” — is not the new Longfellow. Louise Glück, a Nobel Winner Whose Poems Have Abundant Intellect and Deep Feeling 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Memory is reconstruction, and when we recite, we must reconstruct from the pattern of rhyme, internal rhyme, and meter, and from the remembered sensations of our throat muscles articulating the phonemes. The lost art of memorizing poetry 2014-04-27T00:00:00Z

“My grandma put al-monds in hers,” someone else said, pronouncing the first syllable so that it rhymed with “pal.” Pass the Pork Belly, and the Joint 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

As for nonsense poetry, the imperative of a rhyme often results in the oddest conjunction of ideas. Phonics speaks to children's knack for nonsense 2012-11-19T13:31:18Z

And at least two of the lines must rhyme. Style Invitational Week 1193: Poedtry II, plus winning limericks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

The rhyme is still audible but it doesn't intrude on the naturalistic surface of some daringly prose-like rhythms. Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti 2012-06-25T11:57:22Z

As in nursery rhyme or folk song, such a question is answered with a series of conditions: "When the kisses core hollow/ and the mattress sags sallow," etc. Poem of the week: Fruition by Rhian Edwards 2012-06-18T11:24:52Z

Drake’s increasing mastery of not just rhyme, but tone and inflection is readily apparent. Drake, 'Nothing Was the Same' review 2013-09-23T02:13:00Z

Brown grew up in Detroit, and at an early age was stringing together rhymes with astonishing dexterity – a byproduct of immersing himself in the collected works of Theodor Seuss Geisel, a k a Dr. Seuss. Danny Brown finds success by rapping about being broke 2012-03-28T00:18:00Z

The joke, both grim and fruitful, is, of course, that Harrison writes in exquisitely metred rhyme, in verse that has obviously had a great deal of care taken over it to make it look artless. Selected Poems by Tony Harrison – review 2013-03-12T09:59:01Z

Improvised poetry: One person says a line of poetry, and the next must say a line that rhymes with it, and so on. 11 Fun Activities to Do on a Rainy Day 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

Bookstart's chief executive Viv Bird called the findings "worrying", as "the enjoyable routine of sharing books, stories, songs and rhymes with babies is vital in building pre-literacy skills as well as providing important 'cuddle' time". Two-thirds of parents 'never read to their babies' 2012-06-12T15:39:39Z

For one piece, he assigned a given sound sample to each letter in the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty,” then let them all play out in succession. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

Both host and guest, for example, found convincing reasons to agree that a solid rhyme is inherently more satisfactory than an approximate one. The Eagles were exposed as a line-up of relentless bores | Clive James 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

They live happily ever after, but unfortunately, the rhyming text dies long before the dragon. Perspective | For Banned Books Week, I read the country’s 10 most challenged books. The gay penguins did not corrupt me. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

They sing, dance on tables, discuss post-post-structuralist theory, talk in rhyme. Review: The Devil Went Down to Chelsea to See ‘Prudencia Hart’ 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Eisenberg, now 87, will read from his work and teach little writers how to create their own rhyming riddles. Spare Times for Children for March 21-27 2014-03-21T02:54:37Z

When this word was borrowed from French in the 17th century, it was quickly Anglicized to rhyme with itch. Eleven common words you're probably mispronouncing 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z

Maya circles her legacy-minded suitors, dropping references to Sylvia Plath and discussing the merits of rhyme schemes and suicide. Review: Lena Olin Is Fierce as a Suicidal Poet in ‘Maya Dardel’ 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

Speaking of “supposed to be witty,” I’m already overwhelmed by people making jokes about the fact that my last name rhymes with “frugal.” Watching as the Baton Is Passed 2010-06-02T03:00:00Z

Dear readers, look -- once more it's time To review this year's films, in rhyme! A New Year's break -- and, some rhymes 2011-12-30T23:16:04Z

I’ve been trying to think of a metaphor – an opera singer teaching nursery rhymes? In 'How Not to Be Wrong' Jordan Ellenberg makes math meaningful 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Slam poets from HBO's "Brave New Voices" kicked off the celebration, emerging from the crowd while spitting rhymes before Kid Capri and DJ Skee sprang into an East Coast-meets-West Coast set on their turntables. Grammy winners, nominees honor hip-hop 2011-02-11T11:21:20Z

Each shape establishes a rapport with its rhyming environment; everything feels bitterly connected. Review | These ‘missing’ Jacob Lawrence paintings are finally in a museum — and they’re masterpieces 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Boonstra emphasizes the book’s universality through rhymed shots of the Saharan sands and the snow-covered landscapes of Finland. ‘The Miracle of the Little Prince’ Review: A Children’s Book Turned Rosetta Stone 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

I'd written the poem shortly before sending it in – it's quite a tightly organised poem, in terms of the rhymes and the near-rhymes. Helen Dunmore wins National Poetry Competition 2010-03-30T18:35:00Z

It’s poetry by other people, none of which I have read, but which, I see now, does not rhyme and has stanzas ending in the middle of sentences. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: The case of the missing hidden books 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

His poems are pitched throughout in the same fluent first person, and formally they're neat: enjambment and internal rhyme criss-cross the surfaces like ropes. White Egrets by Derek Walcott | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

Armitage allows “rhymes to occur as naturally as possible within sentences,” and he leaves the “poem’s musical orchestration to be performed by pronounced alliteration, looping repetition, and the quartet of beats in each line.” The Strange Power of a Medieval Poem About the Death of a Child 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

He’s still savvy enough to invite under-loved voices into his musical orbit but still capricious enough to treat a sample of Project Pat’s juggernaut rhymes like a decorative throw pillow. Review | Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ is a lonely, predictable wail from the mountaintop 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

After the death of my grandpa Chester — yes, they had rhyming names — she once remarked tearfully, “He was the most amazing lover.” Helen Mirren says what many women and men know: Sex after 60 is hotter than ever 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

It features other artists' beats and rhymes layered over each other, and original compositions. Download this: "Hip Hop Kitchen" by Seattle's Vitamin D 2011-08-24T19:10:13Z

These are false rhymes, lazy rhymes, blurred rhymes. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

What’s notable is how artists like Mac Miller and Cam Meekins all but ignore the fact of their whiteness in their rhymes, or nod to it only obliquely. White Rappers Paying Homage to the Past 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

To a contestant whose last name was Muck, “You know what rhymes with Muck, don’t you?” Arts & Leisure Preview: Steven Tyler Escapes From Idolatry 2011-02-09T16:50:05Z

She spits rhymes like bullets, sings like an innocent, and is wise beyond her years. New band of the day – Angel Haze (No 1,293) 2012-06-22T08:00:00Z

Then, with a separate piece of code to identify rhymes, he started to assemble sonnets. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Between songs a rapper rhymed in Japanese with a faux Jamaican accent. Overnighter: Chasing Waves South of Tokyo 2013-06-19T16:00:20Z

Smoke from a terraced chimney stack rhymes with smoke rising from her cigarette. Corrie! ? review 2011-02-18T19:17:59Z

Here is one Gershwin lyric, though, which rides along with the effortless rhyming felicity he so relentlessly pursued. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z

Hip-Hop foodies Topics: , , , hip hop, When Queens rapper Action Bronson rose to prominence last year, the most defining thing about him was his attention to food detail in his rhymes. Hip-Hop foodies 2012-06-27T13:46:00Z

“There is no rhyme or reason,” said Brown. Victims' hopes for justice fade as rape kits are routinely ignored or destroyed 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

“The Toxic Avenger” is hardly a great musical, awash in false rhymes and schlock, the musical theater tropes seldom rising above pastiche as in, say, “Urinetown.” The laughter is contagious at Hollywood Fringe Festival's 'Toxic Avenger' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

That gritty, realistic snapshot of urban crime was a showcase for this Queens duo’s masterful, unrelenting rhymes. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Well, sure, hat rhymes with lots of satisfying words, including fat, flat, mat, splat, sat and cat, as Dr. Seuss, a great lover of hats who gave Bartholomew Cubbins 500 of them, made plain. A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

Lam turns the ghost story into a fable involving twins and characters from Chinese mythology, who swim through a murky ocean to the sounds of rhyming narration and haunting music. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in August 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

“There’s sometimes no rhyme or reason to it.” Melania Trump is busier than you think, but as quiet as ever 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

References, registers and nonsense rhymes fly with madcap precision. | '3 2?s; or AFAR': ?3 2?s,? by Mac Wellman, at Dixon Place - Review 2011-10-17T23:32:34Z

He packs more rhymes into his couplets, sometimes five or six in a line. At the Inauguration, Amanda Gorman Wove History and the Future Into a Stirring Melody 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

To further make his point, Oliver invited Miranda to sing a rhyming plea to help the “commonwealth without a lot of wealth.” Lin-Manuel Miranda Sings For Puerto Rico on 'Last Week Tonight' 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

At one point, Brady even busted out his own rhymes. Legend, 2 Chainz, MC Lyte honored at Hip-Hop Ball 2013-01-21T07:42:10Z

Ms. Blank, like the playwright and solo performer Daniel Beaty, often writes in rhyme, but “Seed” is strongest when it lets her ear for profane, conversational language shine instead. | 'Seed': ?Seed? Opens at National Black Theater - Review 2011-09-29T21:21:39Z

Immediately after the crude "Milton" rhyme comes an intensely serious work translated from Virgil's poem, The Georgics. Did John Milton write filthy, innuendo-laden rhyme? 2010-09-22T15:56:00Z

Both women are usually categorized as hip-hop performers, but they sing as often as they deliver rhymes, and they often rap with melodies; neither one limits her music to typical hip-hop arrangements. Ana Tijoux and Danay Suárez at Latin Alternative Music Conference 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

He celebrates the cool joy of Tribe's music in detail, interviewing producer/rapper Q-Tip about which records he sampled for tracks, and rapper Phife Dawg about where he wrote some of his famous rhymes. 'Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest' celebrates hip-hoppers' music 2011-07-28T19:58:10Z

Does Prine take the opportunity to rhyme “child actor” with “wind chill factor”? You bet. Perspective | John Prine’s lyrical one-liners could take your breath away 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z

Everyone on stage, dressed for vacation play in Andrea Hood’s sunny costumes, just seemed so glad to be there, part of a shared process of extracting rhyme, reason and song out of life’s bewilderments. Review: In a Blissful Musical ‘Twelfth Night’ in Central Park, Song Is Empathy 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

But notice how the agenda-like structuring of their wish list, along with the click-lock rhymes, captures in a few lines what “perfect” means to several people involved: Sheldon Harnick, Musical Theater’s Great Marriage Broker 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

Her two best-known hits, “Say So” and “Kiss Me More,” have been quasi-disco-revival pop, and even though her rhymes are pointed and tart, they’re almost suffocated by the gloss of the production. Doja Cat Looks to the Past to Make Her Own Moment on ‘Scarlet’ 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z

The rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy responded to Mr. Taylor’s death on Twitter, calling Phife Dawg a “word warrior, simple as that. Breathed it & lined rhyme into sport. A true fire social narrator.” Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest, Dies at 45 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

She also rhymed about a failed record deal she once had where they tried to make her sound like something she wasn't. Becky G: Another female caught in pop's cookie-cutter vortex 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

The Independent reports that listeners were surprised to find Marr pronounced Kant's name to rhyme not with "pant" or "rant" but instead with Jeremy Hunt. Andrew Marr just Kant help himself 2011-01-18T09:36:46Z

By freshman year of high school, he was engaging in daily lunchroom rap battles, his brain, he would write later, a “never-ending river of rhymes.” Review | Talib Kweli’s ‘Vibrate Higher’ is a plain-spoken striver’s tale 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

Modarressi's gently rhyming text works well with her watercolor illustrations, which feature a family of raccoons and which are filled with comic details. 5 good kids' books about mothers 2010-05-06T23:55:00Z

KreayShawn is on Cosmic Kev, busting rhymes like, "You play the odds, I find it odd that your Twitter page is private/You've got to phones, one of them stays silent." Today's must-see viral videos 2011-08-10T17:11:00Z

If you listen to the orchestrations, the lyrics, the witty rhymes, the dark aspects exploring the sinister vagaries of people's minds – it's incredibly powerful and original. Is Stephen Sondheim the Shakespeare of musical theatre? | Michael Ball 2010-03-29T15:41:00Z

The ersatz Bermondsey 'characters' had as much plausibility as Kipling's Cockney rhymes. Booker club: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2012-07-24T11:28:36Z

Today, in the regions of Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, Dante’s rhymes can be found inscribed on the walls of cafes, alleys and cloisters, his verses about gluttony and malice alongside menus and bus schedules. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

So I think I might know how to rhyme Terrifically clever this time Yet it stalls about here — Lassitude, dude — it’s clear: Everyone’s better than I’m. Style Invitational Week 1336: Two ways about it — a double-entendre contest 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z

Honestly, some of us would be happy just to hear another “pottery”/“lottery” rhyming couplet. At last, an Oscar for popular film. Because who needs another The Shape Of Water? | Hadley Freeman 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

The rhymes obviously don’t approach the density and wit of Shakespeare, but the precocious cast currently in the city can make impromptu poetry sound like drunken Dr. Seuss. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

They speak of their separate traumas in monologues peppered with rhyme, which sounds natural in O’Brien’s mouth, self-conscious in O’Connor’s. ‘Maz and Bricks’ Review: Marching for Rights, With Signs of Romance 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

How on earth is “Mary, Mary” acting “quite contrary” in the nursery rhyme? Style Invitational: We beg you to differ — it’s our compare/contrast contest 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Even aside from Mr. Freedman’s sharp rhymes — and the sinuous, sulfurous music by Scott Frankel — “The Cookie Crumbles” checks off all the boxes of what great musical theater songs should do. Review: ‘The Flamingo Kid,’ a Musical Not Yet in Flight 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

“Chester loved rhyming, in poem or song. / It always felt right, but today it felt … not right.” Newly Published, From Borscht to David Foster Wallace 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z

Also what I had was a rhyming dictionary. John Mulaney and Seth Meyers Fondly Send Up Sondheim. He’s Amused. 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

He was coming out onstage in a coffin and he had these rhymes everybody thought were satanic. Spoofing Insane Clown Posse on the Internet 2010-04-29T21:43:00Z

It's the simplest of things to input a rhyming dictionary. Translating poetry might be beyond Google ? but we'll have fun watching it try 2010-10-24T21:00:00Z

These days, he epitomizes New York rap; Bronson’s thick accent and brash rhymes evoke the Wu, even if he doesn’t want to admit it. And the crowd goes wild for Action Bronson at the Fillmore 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

“The 3,200-square-foot first floor exhibition will provide opportunities to explore new sounds and vocabulary, play rhyming games, invent stories, and engage in activities that encourage teamwork and creative thinking,” the website explains. Oh, the places you'll go! A Dr. Seuss museum opens in Massachusetts 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

But the group’s music — sharp, sociopolitical rhymes set to impossibly cool jazz arrangements — has become a touchstone for generations of younger hip-hop artists. Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 4-10 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z

Or he made his best attempt, at least, as poets do, wrangling with the language of love and salvation — word by word, chord by chord, rhyme by rhyme. Leonard Cohen thrills KeyArena crowd with long concert 2012-11-10T19:09:11Z

As he describes his Illinois upbringing, he breathes and pops into the microphone, occasionally strumming a ukulele, then looping the sounds into a backing track for his rhymes, somewhat in the style of Reggie Watts. When Life’s a Crazy Mess, Try Going Onstage 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

And indeed, Millay’s best work — with its coy rhymes, bravado and playful sexual politics — deserves a contemporary reassessment. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

“At the time, I was reading a lot of Dylan Thomas, and I was really into the concept of internal rhyme,” Mr. Walker wrote of the song’s origin in his 1999 memoir, “Gypsy Songman.” Jerry Jeff Walker, Who Wrote and Sang ‘Mr. Bojangles,’ Dies at 78 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z

Kepler injects the sweet voice of a child chanting a nursery rhyme about bunnies before each execution-style death. Pop-Up Brothels, Severed Tongues and Creepy Nursery Rhymes 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

But not long after World War I, modernist poets began rejecting rigid rhyme, meter and expressions of emotion. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The producer zigs with a dusty funk sample that plucks long-forgotten strings or blows tarnished horns, while the rapper zags with a polysyllabic vocal attack that packs in punchlines and internal rhyme. Rapper Freddie Gibbs heats up the Fillmore Silver Spring with virtuosic craft 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

Certainly, he seems intense on this syrupy and luxurious-sounding album as he unfurls rhymes slowly and with real husk in his voice. Music Review: Rick Ross Promotes ‘Mastermind’ Album at Best Buy Theater 2014-03-04T21:54:48Z

There’s nothing quite so creepy as a traditional nursery rhyme, the lyrics of which we sing to sleepy babies, without stopping to think what we are saying. Thanksgiving, medieval style: Give thanks that “Red Deer testicles” and “living eels in roasted pig” aren’t on the menu today 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

Despite lacking much variation, Rock's songs—typically driven by beefy riffs, catchy hooks, hip-hop rhymes and shouted choruses—were tailor-made for the arena setting. Kid Rock's beefy, patriotic riffs fill United Center 2011-02-27T16:32:00Z

In what she now calls “a massive misstep,” McCartney sent out plastic guitar purses and clothes trashed with Cockney rhyming slang. What Drives Stella McCartney 2012-02-22T11:58:00Z

The camera first finds her sitting in an industrial junkyard under a defiantly planted Japanese flag, working on bitter rhymes — “I’m dodging the brainwashing” — while American planes fly low overhead. From Hiroshima to Tule Lake, Films About Japan and America 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

But it looks like our opinions rhyme at least as well as most of the lyrics in the show. Review: ‘King Kong’ Is the Mess That Roared 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

At the same time, the rapper goes out of his way to be more explicit, more tasteless than ever in rhymes that equate sex with violence and casual misogyny. Kanye West's 'Yeezus' an uneasy listen 2013-06-16T20:37:00Z

With a megaphone voice matched by his robust personality, Killer Mike delivered rhymes saturated with personal meaning and political dimension, bolstering his claim that “this is what a church is supposed to look like.” Pitchfork Festival 2013: It's a wrap 2013-07-18T17:01:00Z

In the interview, Mr. Vernon noted that “Perth,” which opens that album, and “Beth/Rest,” which concludes it, rhyme with “birth” and “death.” The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Much of her poetry rhymes, for God’s sake, something almost no one’s does anymore. Books of The Times: Stealthy Insights Amid Short Phrases 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z

The rhymes may be innovative or conventional but are never less than natural. Poem of the week: Twenty-eight and Twenty-Nine by Winthrop Mackforth Praed 2011-01-04T10:56:26Z

The New York Times' review of Beat Street praised the actor Guy Davis, "who plays a disc jockey with a special gift for the rhymed improvisation that's called rapping". It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

Her lines of lyrics are long, fast, polysyllabic, intricately rhymed, packed with convoluted allusions and delivered with melodic inflections — her own extension of the rapping virtuosity of the 1990s, ambitious but never bombastic. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The narrative cliché that this encounter embodies is, in its way, as soothingly familiar as the rhyming. Books of The Times: David Rakoff’s ‘Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish’ 2013-07-24T21:06:59Z

Fitzgerald, who was singing with Webb’s band, approached him with the idea of adapting an old nursery rhyme into a swinging jazz number. Van Alexander, Composer of ‘A-Tisket, A-Tasket,’ Dies at 100 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

When Ms. Young asked him to deliver a poem, he improvised one, with rhymes. Dance Review: This Time the Trouble Isn?t Wicked Stepsisters 2010-09-05T22:20:00Z

Cricket Azima does just that, though she doesn’t write amusing rhymes about broccoli and beans; she shows how to enjoy them in kid-friendly fare. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

If you still hear these rhymes as stiff or repetitive, your ears aren’t playing tricks on you. Migos-mania: How the Atlanta rap trio mastered the sound of silence 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Sometimes he emphasizes the rhyme in the middle of the phrase as much as the one at the end of it. Gunna Delivers Soothing Songs About the Fast Life on ‘Drip or Drown 2’ 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

It’s a lot to think about, but Churchill sets the stage clearly with a rhyming prologue. Michael Kahn on a dreamy ‘Cloud 9’ at Studio Theatre 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

If I was a murderer, I wouldn't have no time to write no rhyme about it. When Rakim met Wretch 32 2011-08-12T23:11:03Z

Of all the young dudes rhyming ahead of the beat, this fastidious Maryland rapper is the one whose time-smudging feels the most like spiritual practice. Perspective | Best music of 2019: Lana Del Rey sings lullabies about the end of America 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z

You may rhyme more than two words, but they all have to be the same rhyme. Style Invitational Week 1079: Little riddle rhymes; and the winning car ‘fictoids’

What rappers such as Kanye West and Jay-Z do with syncopated rhymes and rhythms, the Portland Cello Project bangs out with strings and bows. In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z

The rhymes sound just as strong with couplets like, "Some guys think they can't be winners./First prize often goes to rank beginners." “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

The first line is, “You call that love in French, but it’s just Frenchette,” and later when he rhymes that with “naturalette” and “leatherette” you know the suffix isn’t diminutive, it’s dismissive. It’s Not Fake French, It’s Frenchette 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

He also offers a history of back slang and rhyming slang. Slang: The universal language 2012-10-15T11:45:00Z

He was always trying out different forms: each new poem was a new experiment with rhyme and metre. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z

I didn’t want it to really have a rhyme or reason. James Brown and Al Pacino, Salsa Added 2011-04-10T00:51:52Z

Your poem isn’t required to rhyme, but in the 14 previous times we did this contest, almost all the inking entries did. Style Invitational: A RIP-roaring year — write an obit poem 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Every morning the actor playing Joe would preach to 150 of the cast and stunt team at the gym, running through nursery rhymes and have everyone pray to him. Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Your Old Droog rapped forcefully, in breathless complex rhyme, and with a sly, mildly scraped tone that to many, sounded a little too familiar. Your Old Droog Performs in Public for the First Time 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

“The Silk Road” is more like music in its harmonies: Davis pulls from folk songs, French ballads, nursery rhymes; from Hindu gods and Greek ones; from Chinese and Western astronomy. A Cosmic Being Dies in Yoga Class. Then Things Get Really Weird. 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z

Now I’ve learned the hard way that some poems don’t rhyme and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. ‘She was our Michelle Obama’: how Gilda Radner changed comedy for ever 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z

A blurry feeling settled over me as I kept encountering rhyming descriptions and plot points. In ‘Luster,’ a Young Woman Moves in With Her Lover — and His Family 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

When he saw the American flag still waving at dawn — an improbable victory — Key penned the stirring “Defense of Fort M’Henry,” with a rhyme scheme matched to the Anacreontic Song. ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ Has Changed a Lot in 200 Years 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

“My mother apparently said I could sing nursery rhymes in perfect tune when I was 2,” Ms. Durham once said in a television interview. Judith Durham, Singer of ‘Georgy Girl’ and Other Hits, Dies at 79 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z

Her restlessly intelligent lyrics, glancingly rhymed and set to gorgeous drones of melody, acknowledge the mysteries of the character and also a range of possible responses to her. Review: Mother Teresa Sings, in Drag and With Doubts 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

The political song satirist unveils a fresh new hour of material, with nothing about the Republican nominee because he is unable to rhyme anything with “orange” or “Hitler.” Avoiding the debate tonight? Here are 29 (totally real) shows to watch instead! 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

An evening of hip-hop improv that asks you to lock up your phones and unlock an extremely embarrassing moment, which the cast then riffs on, runs out of rhymes. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Her lack—of a child, of a life—rhymes with the actress’s unreality. In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Only Luger’s “tag” — a laser-gun synthesizer noise he works into almost every mix, like a watermark, usually just before the beat drops and the rhymes kick in — gives away who made it. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z

Still running — deadline Monday night, April 26: Our contest for novel takes on fairy tales, nursery rhymes, etc. Style Invitational Week 1433: Questionable Journalism 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

They seem as withdrawn as Simon, not wanting to call attention to themselves with anything but the mushiest phrases and most reticent rhymes — a timidity that lets the ear write them off as unimportant. Review: ‘Superhero,’ a Comic-Book Musical Too Flimsy to Fly 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

Harder to reanimate today is the antique comic business involving masquerades, rhyming repartee and a slew of supporting characters who seem to have sprung from a commedia dell’arte trunk. Shakespeare's 'Love's Labor's Lost': Kathleen Marshall directs a winner at the Old Globe 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

“We are a museum that is mad about objects,” Mr. Gabet said, in English, rhyming it with “glad.” An Old Paris Museum Makes a New Name for Itself 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

His worldview seems to have seeped all the way down to the bedrock of his musicality, from the tepid beats he selects to the extra-clever rhymes he so preciously constructs. Review | Did Chance the Rapper get boring? Or did we just get bored? 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

According to one telling, Geisel “finally gave it one more chance and said, ‘If I find two words that rhyme and make sense to me, that’s the title.’ How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

But the emergence of grime as the dominant sound of modern Britain has given kids from inner-cities outside London licence to rhyme in their own voices. Bang On! The new regional sound of British hip-hop 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

The emo-inflected rock songs - standouts include "Populism Yea Yea," "I'm Not That Guy" and a haunting reworking of the nursery rhyme "Ten Little Indians" - propel the action forward without leaving too much of an impression. 'Bloody Andrew Jackson' puts the pop in populism 2010-10-14T00:32:00Z

There's one in Elements, however, as he concludes the song by twisting the pronunciation of "discovered" to make it rhyme with Harvard . Readers recommend ? the results: songs with jokes 2010-09-02T22:31:00Z

Who knew that “Ben Carson” rhymed with “awesome”? That’s one of the things we learn in a new radio advertisement, complete with rap song, aimed at getting young black voters behind the surgeon’s presidential run. Who is Ben Carson trying to fool with his bizarre, insincere rap ad?: “He’s a more refined version of Sarah Palin” 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

“I know this is said an awful lot, but while history doesn’t repeat itself, it does rhyme,” Batstone said. ‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas Staple From Ukraine, a Century Later 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z

You don’t have to rhyme, but it can be fun to try. Mary Amato weaves stories and songwriting together in Lucy McGee series 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

As with all of Reichardt’s movies, this one obeys its own rhythms and rhymes, treating viewers not just to an engaging yarn, but to something more contemplative and poetic. Perspective | Best movies of 2020: Diverse thrills, chills, Dickensian laughs and a pandemic-friendly trip to Greece 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Think of nursery rhymes and childhood games – someone always dies. Gabriel Orozco: Permanent playtime 2011-01-24T21:29:00Z

"Lin caused this crime of mine," she rhymed. Rita Moreno says it was the hip-hop musical "Hamilton" that inspired her to bust a rhyme while delivering the commencement address at the Berklee College of Music 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

On a Capitol Hill street corner and in Volunteer Park , I've seen techno fans dance to it, rappers impulsively mumble rhymes under their breath, and bboys/bgirls break right there on the ground. Late notice: SAM Remix 08/27/10 with Truckasauras 2010-08-26T20:01:00Z

Built around an echoing beat and splashing cymbals, Home showcases Earl's ridiculous flow, managing to feature a year's worth of rhymes in a song that lasts less than two minutes. New music: Earl Sweatshirt ? Home 2012-02-10T12:01:43Z

Still, Carmello, as the flighty potential mother-in-law, has a few moments of delightful giddiness delivering her lines in rhyming, greeting-card cheerfulness. 'The Addams Family' mines macabre musical comedy 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z

The founders, in song and rhyme, fight for independence, debate the balance of constitutional powers, set fiscal policy and worry about their place in history. ‘Hamilton’ Puts Politics Onstage and Politicians in Attendance 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The tracks are filled with impressively smooth rhymes, catchy hooks and a rapid-fire flow that rival the skills of their impressive contributors. The Lonely Island Marks Release of The Wack Album with an Epic New Video 2013-06-11T19:27:39Z

There’s no particular rhyme or reason to the goods on sale at the nearly 50-year-old boutique, yet it all fits a congruent aesthetic: lavish, colorful and playful. Berkeley on a Budget 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

The rapper opened Sunday’s starry telecast with a riveting medley, cramming his verses with complicated rhymes about race, faith and mortality. Review | With a sweep from Bruno Mars, the Grammys snub hip-hop — again 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

Perhaps you can imagine what rhymes with “along.” Review: Sarah Silverman’s ‘Bedwetter’ Musical Has Sprung a Leak 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Thankfully, Geisel is a hilarious and insightful character whose love of literature is almost as infectious as his timeless rhymes. Review | A portrait of Dr. Seuss offers a look at the prankster workaholic behind the iconic characters 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

It is solidly held together by rhyme – not the terza rima we might expect, but a patterning equally substantial. Poem of the week: Rublev by Rowan Williams 2011-07-18T11:01:24Z

Chapters are punctuated with nursery rhymes, paintings, newspaper clippings, letters and photographs — all shining a light on advances in clinical medicine and science alongside the meaning of childhood. Is This a Good Time to Be Born? Comparatively Speaking, Yes 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Thompson’s misshapen figures rhyme and merge with the background in ways that are heavily inspired by Gauguin, as well as late Cézanne and early Matisse. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

The lyrics are like a poem, without a single rhyme. Watch First Aid Kit Travel the Country in "America" Video 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z

“Its rhyme scheme cemented, for me, a new sense of inevitability.” Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

Instead, Ryan forged a witty, profound and compressed style that often using a "recombinant" rhyming style. Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z

If only the issue was one of rhyme versus blank verse or a ban on onomatopoeia – something that matters to poetry. In praise of ? impoverished poets 2011-07-27T22:03:34Z

With rhyming, rhythmic text and vibrant, colorful art, this visually stunning picture book celebrates a wide variety of animals and introduces the concept of endangered species. The 10 best kids’ books of 2018 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Premier said he spent 18 months locked down at HeadQCourterz, retrofitting new production for his old partner’s rhymes. Fans Were Surprised to Get More Gang Starr. They Almost Didn’t. 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

The lyrics are sung in Mr. Sams’s mostly rhymed couplets, a playful translation only occasionally too cute. Review: ‘Die Fledermaus’ in Full, a First Under the Baton of James Levine 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

Advertisement “There’s a rhyme between the seeds in the vault and the way these economic migrants have paused their lives back home,” she said. For Author Lauren Redniss, No Such Thing as Bad Weather 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Such broadsides as “Money” deplore greed and gentrification in singsong rhymes that owe as much to “Mary Had a Little Lamb” as “Beat on the Brat.” Flasher and Puff Pieces: Two standouts in D.C.’s lively punk scene 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

You could almost imagine it was being sung in French until "meet", in a not so neat feat, rhymed with something along the lines of "I was led here by my feet". The Pearl Fishers, Le Nozze de Figaro 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Across each meal I’ve eaten, courses rhymed and echoed and called back to one another. A Good Choice for Diners Who Don’t Need Choices 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

What’s more, the charismatic and sensitive rhymes on his second major-label album, “Vibes,” have the same fleet artfulness of a good bop riff that were exhibited in his debut, “Timez Are Weird These Days.” Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Until that first delicious slurp, when the rhyming cacophony of speech bubbles and shout bubbles settles to a quiet reverie, sated by everyday kindness. 8 Picture Books About Ordinary Kids’ Everyday Activism 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z

Although the lyrics are well supplied with rhymes, the melodies proceed largely without catchy refrains or singalong hooks. Review | Big Thief transcends ‘folk’ at 9:30 Club 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Even many of the smaller details in the two books rhyme, no doubt because the distinguishing features of poverty do not vary all that much from place to place. ‘The End of Eddy’ Captures a Savage Childhood and a Global Movement 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Throughout the afternoon and night, rhymes bounced like so many beach balls, mixed amid hundreds of inventive cusses and witticisms. Camp Flog Gnaw churns to Pharrell, Odd Future 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

With her bruising, bawdy and boastful rhymes, Young M.A, a Brooklyn native, is a New York M.C. in the grand tradition. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Was your goal only to use the most obvious rhymes? From Franzen to Fieri, the five rules of the review as takedown 2012-11-28T17:36:00Z

Bri lives in his hulking shadow, scrawling rhymes in her notebook and finding comfort and wisdom in the art form that robbed her of her daddy. In Angie Thomas’s ‘On the Come Up,’ a Young Rapper Finds Her Way 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Taylor stutters for 10 seconds, searching for the verb, thinking of the science of rhyme, the algebra of harmony, the way his songs tell stories and stir nameless feelings. James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

So runs the nursery rhyme whose opening Jack O’Brien has made the title of his exuberant theatrical memoir, and it’s even apter than he may realize. Books of The Times: ‘Jack Be Nimble,’ a Memoir by Jack O’Brien 2013-06-20T21:34:04Z

A brilliant classic rhyming story about the scary things in life that ends in the safety of a hug with Dad. David Melling's top 10 books featuring hugs 2013-01-21T09:00:00Z

With the exception of the shelves on which my own novels sit, there is no rhyme or reason to the location of the books. The Crime Novelist William Kent Krueger Still Loves Sherlock Holmes 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

Emerging from a rolled-up rug wearing just his underpants, he is forced at gunpoint to make a rhyming poem from random words and does so with aplomb. My Life in CIA – review 2012-05-29T17:08:52Z

Regnard rose to fame after the death of Moliere, who cast a powerful influence over him -- and wrote in rhyming couplets, which Ives has recreated in English. Highly engaging low farce in 'The Heir Apparent' at ICT 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Did he just rhyme “Malcolm X” with “British politician sex”? Does he always pronounce “Berlin” with an accent on the first syllable, or is he just stretching it to fit the syntax of the song? Even Billy Joel Mocked ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire.’ I Loved It. 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Interspersed with the narrator’s journey is a constellation of discrete stories that share rhyming motifs and certain turns of phrase. Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in ‘Flights’ 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

Like Douglas, Golding used rhyming couplets for his translation. Poster poems: Translation 2010-08-20T09:42:00Z

Davies has pared her collection to the bone; the focus is tight, enabling sense easily to be made of the complex situations she describes; the rhythms and occasional rhymes employed enhance and reinforce meaning. Reader reviews roundup 2013-07-05T17:06:24Z

“H.A.M.” has an operatic finale, and “Monster” rhymes “esophagus’ with “sarcophagus.” Kanye West is a magnificent blowfish 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

They feature traditional nursery rhymes as well as their own original songs. Toddler tries running away from home when Cocomelon is turned off 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

President Trump’s skin tone is so unusual, nothing rhymes with it. Style Invitational: Cast your Bred here — a new 4-line-poem contest 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

His latest book is The Borassic Coast, a play on the area's tourism brand, "the Jurassic coast", and the rhyming slang for being broke. Sun, sand and inequality: why the British seaside towns are losing out 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

The dad takes a breath, and in rhyme, describes the activities of a bunch of monsters in the neighborhood, starting with Rhonda the reality star, who lives just down the street. “Neighbors from Hell”: The perfect children’s book for our twisted country 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

Sondheim's tight, episodic rhyming lyrics, and twisting, arpeggiated, complicated music reveals so many intricacies about the life of a woman, particularly a woman of the theatre: Here’s to the ladies who lunch: One of Sondheim’s greatest achievements was writing complex women 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z

That songlike quality would fit well in a poem, especially the internal rhyme and near-rhyme of “night and light” with “alike.” ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek

Many poets and hymn-writers reworked the 23rd Psalm in metre and rhyme. Poem of the week: Psalm 23 2011-02-07T10:26:09Z

Treme doesn’t rhyme with ream; it’s pronounced truh-MAY, and it’s the name of an old New Orleans neighborhood famous for music — and, in some parts, for crime. | 'Treme': David Simon?s New HBO Series: After Katrina 2010-04-08T21:43:00Z

“So we pretty much did every song together. Everybody wrote his stuff in front of everybody. Everybody spat their rhymes in front of each other. We were throwing ideas around together.” Loss Haunts A Tribe Called Quest’s First Album in 18 Years 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Nelson writes all this poetically, with smart, observant rhymes that often land like hammers. The Baltimore apocalypse: Small theaters, wild visions

Lovestory’s lyrics are all singsong playground rhymes: “Baby, I’m lonely/Why don’t you hold me?/All I want to do tonight is dance.” The Weeknd’s Disco Fever, and 9 More New Songs 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z

Mr. Riggs’s idea was to do a Halloween book of photos accompanied by rhyming couplets. Ransom Riggs Is Inspired by Vintage Snapshots 2013-12-30T22:52:09Z

One song, “Mama Cry,” is a jail-cell apology letter to his mother wherein he repents for the hurt he’s caused her in a cadence that resembles a sinister nursery rhyme. The Happy-Sad Hooks of YNW Melly’s “We All Shine” 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

“I like dollars, I like diamonds, I like stunting, I like shining,” she rhymed at the top of her voice on Saturday night, joined by thousands of festivalgoers who like those things, too. Review | At Broccoli City Festival, cheers for Cardi B — and jeers for Kanye West 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to say what’s funnier: the many rhyming jokes or the stage business, which includes an “Open Sesame,” “Shut Sesame” routine that’s like “Who’s on First” in ancient Arabia. Review: Sagas, Swashbuckling and Scheherazade in ‘1001 Nights’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

During the holidays we’re subjected to hours of astonishingly bad renditions of O Holy Night and campy ballads about mistletoe, as in, rhymes with snow! Hark! Listen to TIME?s Favorite Holiday Tunes on Spotify 2011-12-02T19:54:49Z

Rembrandt’s raised eyebrow rhymes with the wobbly wrinkles streaking his forehead, and those in turn rhyme with the folds and pleats of his tightly wound turban. Review | Buried deep in a disappointing Rembrandt and Velázquez show are two portraits that demand to be seen 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

Nonwords with rhyme and meter, as in “Jabberwocky,” also are poetry. The Shape of the Void: Toward a Definition of Poetry 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

The group’s sophomore EP, “Sons of the P” went gold, once again mining George Clinton for its carnal nursery rhyme single, “Kiss You Back.” Perspective | Shock G of Digital Underground was a psychedelic rap pioneer who helped hip-hop crossover 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z

Sx I don't know what rhymes with Obama, but I do know what rhymes with Mitt... US election 2012: the music world reacts 2012-11-07T10:22:20Z

Gene Weingarten, who threw in a second rhyme at no extra charge. Style Invitational Week 1148: It’s TankaWanka II 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

For every caustic rhyme about violence there’s a pensive, unexpectedly gentle production choice to go with it. Arts & Leisure Preview: Angry Rhymes, Dirty Mouth, Goofy Kid 2011-05-04T11:00:08Z

But the spirited choreography, rhymed dialogue and zippy songs, when paired with a stream of sexual euphemisms and tasteless jokes, sometimes create an unsavory contrast. Review: In ‘ms. estrada,’ Campus Feminists Say No to Sex, Yes to Hip-Hop 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

We went on a fact-finding trip to Granada and Valencia, but life there rhymed too closely with New York. I Quit New York 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z

And it wasn't like, well, I've got to write a rhyme, or now this has to work. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z

Both triplets of Sonnet 30 conclude with a powerful rhyming couplet. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z

But it didn’t quite capture or find an equivalent for Gorey’s deliciously wicked wit, the play between the neat form of rhymes and an acidic viewpoint. Trey McIntyre Puts His Company to Rest at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

English, in “Briggflatts,” is compacted into mouthfuls crunchy with alliteration and internal rhyme. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

"There was a Young Lady of Clare, who was sadly pursued by a bear, when she found she was tired, she abruptly expired, And so do these rhymes - in despair!" Barker rewrote 'boring' Lear book 2012-06-13T10:09:26Z

My deepest apologies to Paul Simon but every time I think of Lee, I think of your classic rhyming song "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" from 1975. Don't Drop Off Your Key Lee, Casey James has 50 Ways To Leave 'American Idol' 2010-05-19T15:08:00Z

Their beats and rhymes have moved more hearts and minds than their political endorsements ever could. Some famous rappers backed Trump’s campaign. Did it matter? 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

I think Singapore also made an unconscious rhyme for Berlin, which also features later in the novel this story is excerpted from; both are city-state-islands, with contested identities and allegiances built into their histories. This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Lethem on the Poignance of Backgammon 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

He hates modern pop songs for their sloppy rhyme schemes. Stephen Sondheim: A life in music 2010-12-20T08:00:00Z

Another excellent variant of the paperback game involves obtaining a poetry anthology and reading, say, the first three lines of a rhyming quatrain out loud. Down to the Sea Again, Impersonating Writers 2011-07-01T16:12:05Z

When they get to Australia, one hopes that the Qs' quirky raps and rhymes might remind Aussies that there's a lot more to the Chicago soundtrack than rat-a-ta-tat. Theater: Shakespeare gets all funked up 2011-01-27T17:55:00Z

Sometimes he tends toward complex internal rhyme, but just as often he’s merely exulting. Critic’s Notebook: 2 Chainz Is Hip-Hop’s Rising Star 2012-08-15T22:26:48Z

Kawabe sang in a multitude of voices: a child reciting nursery rhymes, a shrieking warlock, an opera singer. SXSW: Psychedelia lives! 2014-03-14T15:03:00Z

His rhymes are often too simple, failing to tap his full potential. Review: Big K.R.I.T. misses mark with debut album 2012-06-04T17:04:09Z

Community Outcast could have been another litany of plaints about Britain's underclass, but it's moving not mawkish, and even when he rhymes "mummy" and "tummy" it's poignant, not puerile. New band of the day ? No 841: Devlin 2010-08-05T14:29:00Z

As Babypants, he sings original tunes and old nursery rhymes and sometimes hybrids of the two, mixing his own lyrics into a standard tune. Babypants rocks their preschool socks off at Northgate center 2012-03-04T03:41:41Z

It's a slight, sentimental, touching tale, told in a flexible, mixed metre and fluent rhyme. Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z

Miranda consulted with Chernow and aimed to keep his story respectably true to history, even as he rendered Cabinet battles involving Hamilton, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson as intensely rhymed rap showdowns. Pulitzers: Broadway’s ‘Hamilton,’ novel ‘The Sympathizer’ among arts winners 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

It’s aesthetically more daring, with its rhyming text and its element of mythological fantasy. The Oscar Whiteness Machine 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Read subsequently defended the rhyming couplets which had come under critical fire: "Rhyming couplets did not do Shakespeare or Gilbert and Sullivan much harm." Play it again, Mike Read: DJ's Oscar Wilde musical given another spin 2012-02-08T15:39:02Z