Exercises for End Rhymes
Rhyme Mapping
Objective: Identify and create rhymes.
Exercise: Use a list of random words. Then, come up with as many rhyming words for each as possible. For example, for the word "game," write "fame," "name," "blame," etc.
Example: Word: Light
Rhymes: Night, Fight, Bright, Sight, Might
RANDOM WORDS -
CHAIN
STORY
EXCITING
RED
CAR CHASE
ROBBERY
LATE NIGHT
GIVEN
OFTEN
CARELESS
DROP
CORNER
NICE
IMPRESSION
MIKE TYSON
BLOCK
CHASING
MAGNIFICENT
COPING
MAINTAIN
EXPLORE
IMAGINE
BONUS - TRY COMPOUND RHYMES, WORDS THAT MULTISYLLABLE WORD SOUNDS AND SIMILIAR LIKE SOUNDS
EXAMPLE : "Recognize" Steppin Wise or "Rockin heat", Stompin Feet
Rhyme Completion
Objective: Complete given lines with rhymes.
Exercise: Here is a series of half-written lines, and they must complete them with appropriate end rhymes.
Example: Given: "I hustle every day and night,"
Complete: "To make sure my future's bright."
Given: "unstoppable flow because I can't stop rhyming"
Complete:
Given: "I'm the King of the City and plus they gave me the key"
Complete:
Given: "Expanding my mansion with these gold bars I'm laying"
Complete:
Now you try both
Given: ""
Complete:
Given: ""
Complete:
Freestyle Rhyming
Objective: Improve spontaneous rhyming ability.
Exercise: Set a timer for 1-2 minutes and have the artist freestyle, focusing on using end rhymes in each line. Record the session for later review.
Example: "I step up to the mic, feeling right, shining bright, like a star in the night."
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Exercises for Internal Rhymes
Internal Rhyme Identification - Objective: Recognize internal rhymes in existing lyrics.
Exercise: Take lyrics from Lose Yourself by Eminiem, and highlight or underline the internal rhymes. Eminem, Joel Ortiz, Hospin have examples or Lyrics: "I'm a lyrical genius, with a mic in my hand, I stand, command the land."
Eminem, Lose Yourself
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His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy.There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom‘s spaghetti.He’s nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready to drop bombs,but he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down.The whole crowd goes so loud.He opens his mouth, but the words won’t come out.He’s choking how, everybody’s joking now.The clock’s run out, times up, over, plow.
Internal Rhyme:
sweaty, heavy, already, spaghetti, ready
mom, calm, bombs
nervous, surface
Sentence Creation - Objective: Create sentences with internal rhymes.
Exercise: Take a word and create sentences that include an internal rhyme with that word. Example: Word: Flow, Sentence: "My flow's so cold, it unfolds like snow."
a list of words for you to create internals with.
carpet
star
board
step
dance
splat
auto
slate
horn
stall
Fill in the Blanks - Objective: Practice inserting internal rhymes.
Exercise: Fill in blanks where the internal rhyme should be with appropriate rhymes.
here are 7 rhyme fill-in exercises designed to help artists practice their rhyming and lyrical skills:
Sentence: "I'm a lyrical ___, like a bird on a ___." Options: wizard, blizzard; fighter, glider; master, plaster
Sentence: "In the booth, I ___ the mic and spit with all my ___." Options: grab, fab; hold, gold; seize, breeze
Sentence: "My flow is so , like ice in the ." Options: cool, pool; tight, night; fresh, mesh
Sentence: "With words, I paint a ___, creating scenes so ___." Options: vision, precision; picture, mixture; masterpiece, peace
Sentence: "I'm a poet in , with verses so ." Options: motion, devotion; action, fraction; movement, improvement
Sentence: "I write rhymes that , like stars in the ." Options: shine, line; glow, show; glitter, litter
Sentence: "Every bar is , with a message so ." Options: crafted, shafted; tight, light; precise, nice
Rhyme Chains - Objective: Create multiple internal rhymes in a single line or a set of lines.
Exercise: Challenge to Write 10 lines that contain at least two internal rhymes. Example: "I'm quick with the flick of my wrist, can't resist, I persist."
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