In the last segment you've seen how number of lines and line lengths can create forward motion, can Contrast between sections, can create prosody, can spotlight important ideas. And now we're going to move on to rhyme scheme. One of the things you probably noticed is how easily number of lines, and line length. Cooperate together to create effects. So for example, creating instability once again back to the chorus, pre chorus in why can't I have you? Note that only, only, is the third line shorter, but[SOUND]. But it's also three lines and so that the, the sequence of three lines, which is in, in itself unstable and wants to move forward, and the shorter third line, which is even more unstable, creates a much stronger push. Well we're going to see now, turning to rhyme schemes, is that rhyme can now add it's element to number of lines and lengthen lines to create even more activity to create even more, prosody, to create even more light and spotlighting. To create even more contrast between sections. So that, we'll start with a very simple use of rhyme scheme, that is, in-line rhymes, and the in-line rhymes create, as all rhyme does, create a kind of road map for your ear. That is songs are not seen typically, songs are heard. And rhyme is something not that you see. But that you hear so that the rhyme scheme is a kind of roadmap, kind of a razor of what's coming next, a razor of expectations for you as you move through lines and lines and lines. So let's create, let's, let's talk about stable, versus unstable, in terms of rhyme schemes. The most stable thing you can have, is two equal length lines, that rhyme. So, Eenie Meenie Miney Moe catch a tiger by the toe, and we're done. Eenie Meenie Miney Moe catch a tiger by the toe, now even though you know that there's more of that nursery rhyme, you don't feel like come on, come on, give me more, give me more. I, I feel so unstable, No. Because you have equal length lines and they rhyme. Now note that, Eenie Menie Miney Moe, catch a tiger by the toe is much more stable or slightly more stable as he writes it, eenie meenie miney moe, catch a tiger by the foot. And so you can see now that the sound connection between moe and toe has added more balance. More stability to the two equal length lines. Two lines stable. Equal length lines stable. Rhyming lines also even more stable. So eenie meenie minie moe, catch a tiger by the toe. That's called a couplet. Couplet, a couplet, that is to say, two, couple, two lines that rhyme. So two equal length lines that rhyme in fact. So that couplet is probably the single most stable unit. It stops us. It says okay, hold it. We're done, okay? If we're going to, if we continue on we're going to be starting anew. We're going to be starting over. And so in, eenie meenie miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers make him pay, 50 dollars every day. Now we have a four line sequence. But that four line sequence has been fractured. That four line sequence contains a stop in the middle. I call it a fragmentation. So that really in that four-line sequence, we're looking at two line plus two lines, that is two stable lines followed by two stable lines. Eenie Meenie Miney Moe. Catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers make him pay. Fifty dollars everyday. So there is A, a dance or a concerting, I guess you might call it, of number of lines, length of lines, and rhyme scheme to give us a full stop at the end of those four lines and in fact, to give us a full stop after the first two lines and then another full stop after the next two lines. So writing in couplets is certainly a possibility. But one of the things about couplets of course is that they stop you every two lines. And if you have a really healthy diet of couplet after couplet after couplet after couplet. An unrelenting march of the couplets, then you're going to be stopping us every two lines. And the song is going to be in jeopardy of being a little too fractured. And feeling perhaps a little bit too long. So that couplets is something that you will use, but I thing probably not use it as the steady diet for a whole song. In terms of other stable rhyme schemes, lets look at Mary had a little lamb, Fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went the lamb was sure to go, and there's a four line sequence and note that in this four line sequence we have the first line long, the second line short, the thrird line long, the fourth line short. Short, so that the sequence of long line short line, long line short line, where the long lines match in their lengths and where the short lines match in their lengths, that creates a sequence. Mary had a little lamb. Fleece was whaite as snow, everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. So that's now another really stable sequence. And of course, you might even rhyme the first line and the third line and create a rhyme scheme that rhymes one and three and two and four. In terms of rhyme notation, let's call each new sound that we have, each new rhyme sound that we have by a letter of the alphabet. So, eeny meeny miny moe, catch a tiger by the toe. If he hollers make him pay, fifty dollars every day. So, Moe, Toe Pay, day. We just simply notate that as a, a, b, b. Note that, that notation of a, a, b, b, is also a description of the line lengths. That the line lengths a, a match. Now b, b are still, I guess I, I, when we look at it that way. There's a line length notation would be A, A, A, A, I suppose. But when we get to, Mary had a little lamb, fleece was white was white as snow, everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go. Now let's use an X for an unrhymed line and so we would simply have X A. X a. And we'll just use that notation as we go, it'll make things a little bit easier for us as we, as we proceed. So let's see now we have two very stable rhyme schemes and now let's look at an unstable rhyme scheme. And this is kind of a surprise. Mary had a little lamb. Fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went. She sold the fleece to pay the rent. And so now we have, Mary had a little lamb. Fleece was white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went, and we're looking for a rhyme for snow. Because it;s the short line and then wehn we get to that last line, it's got two things going for it, number one its longer than we expected, and number two, it rhymes with the third line. Mary had a little lamb, fleece was white as snow, everywhere that Mary went, she sold the fleece to pay the rent. That's a surprise. In fact, we've been fooled into thinking and to expecting a rhyme for go, and yet, we get a rhyme for the third line. So we've been fooled. That we could call a deceptive cadence. Those are interesting. Of course, it's unstable, and what it also does is, it just turns huge spotlights on to that last part of the fourth line.
