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But what obsessed me were the lyrics, which describe tragi-comically bleak scenes of contemporary abjection using language that felt borderline Shakespearean, tied up in elaborate rhyme schemes and tight lexical knots.—Meaghan Garvey, Pitchfork, 3 Apr. 2025 Although the translations into English are awkward, especially across the differences in poetic rhyme scheme and structure, the sentiment is unmistakable.—Eli Amdur, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 With his calm demeanor and distinctive baritone, Biggie exhibited a rare talent for painting pictures with his bars, delivering a complex rhyme scheme of double entendres and metaphors that has kept him on the Mount Rushmore of rap for any true connoisseur of the genre.—Shirley Halperin For The Hollywood Reporter, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2025 And yet…the rhyme schemes, the reduplication, the semantic shifts, the conversions, the deliberate grammatical oddities, and rich double entendres–Carpenter is, for some people, the greatest poet to have ever put pen to paper.—Daniel Rodgers, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for rhyme scheme
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