The music behind the trending game is similar to a metronome and was created for rhythm. The "song" playing in the background ...

Rhyme thrives at both poles of literature. It is the material of a greeting card—“Roses are red / Violets are blue / Sugar is sweet / And so are you”—and the high-tragic language of Racine. Rhyme ...

Songs are made for ears, not eyes. Because people listen to songs, you learn to write for eyeless ears. Rhyme creates the ear’s roadmap through the lyric ideas. It tells your ear where to go next, ...

Aurash Z. Vatan ’23 is a resident of Mather House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays. What’s so important about rhyme? Why does it have a stranglehold on so much of humanity’s collective ...