Rhymes with push-koo; I always say it sounds like a breakfast cereal.
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.
Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.
I remember reading Dr. Seuss books, and he's rhyming so many words together and I just loved the way it sounded. It became a challenge for me, to put words together that nobody would ever think about putting together.
Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.
It's important to me that my songs actually make sense. So often, I turn on the radio, and I have no idea what the people are singing about. It may sound good, but when you listen, they're just saying words that rhyme. It's another song about nothing.
I believe that all blogs should have at least one set of rhyming words. Just because. Does. Fuzz. Was.
The name Dirtee Stank came from a lyric I had when I was 17 or 16. Lyrical tank, like my name was Frank, going on dirty, going on stank. It sounded like a good name!
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
I taught myself to read when I was three by comparing the letters in my Mother Goose book with the rhymes I had memorised.
I think the first time I really heard poetry was in the schoolyard. Just the little limericks that kids say when they're jumping rope and playing games. I think that's the first time I heard rhyming words - I don't know if I'd call that the definitive poetry, but that's when I heard rhyming words said and not necessarily sung.
For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.
When you're doing poetry like mine that rhymes, it's very easy to sound like a song that didn't work out!
Okay, this is a secret, but I think that nursery rhymes are the most relaxing and fun songs.
I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.
One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.
My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages and came to China, which is cockney rhyming slang for mate.
