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    This document provides examples of poetic devices commonly found in hip hop songs and poems, including iambic pentameter, internal rhyme schemes, similes, imagery, and alliteration. Several famous hip hop songs and poems are listed with the devices they employ. Iambic pentameter is found in Shakespeare's sonnets but not in hip hop songs. Internal rhyme schemes and alliteration are often used in both hip hop lyrics and poems. Similes and imagery appear across hip hop songs and traditional poems.

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    This document provides examples of poetic devices commonly found in hip hop songs and poems, including iambic pentameter, internal rhyme schemes, similes, imagery, and alliteration. Several famous hip hop songs and poems are listed with the devices they employ. Iambic pentameter is found in Shakespeare's sonnets but not in hip hop songs. Internal rhyme schemes and alliteration are often used in both hip hop lyrics and poems. Similes and imagery appear across hip hop songs and traditional poems.

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    Content Guide: The Poetics of Hip Hop

    IAMBIC PENTAMETER AND INTERNAL RHYME SCHEME


    Iambic Internal Rhyme
    Song Pentameter Scheme Example
    Lupe Fiasco’s “Angels Remix”
    Video and Lyrics X You can hear 'em revving up in heaven, now, can't you?
    Black Thought’s “Freestyle087”
    Video and Lyrics X To be a icon, wearin' slippers made of python
    Big Pun’s “Deep Cover” Video
    and Lyrics X Insanity's buildin' a pavilion in my civilian
    Iambic Internal Rhyme
    Poem Pentameter Scheme
    Shakespeare’s Sonnet #18
    Video and Poem X Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
    Nikki Giovanni’s “Ego Tripping”
    Video and Poem X I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal.

    SIMILE, IMAGERY & ALLITERATION


    Song Simile Imagery Alliteration
    They put the cloth across your lap soon as you
    sat down
    It's feeling like you own every place you choose
    to be at now
    Drake’s “The Ride” Video and Walking through airport security with your hat
    Lyrics X down
    Fugees (Lauryn Hill) “How Many
    Mics” Video and Lyrics X Me without a mic is like a beat without a snare
    Nas’ “I Gave You Power” Video X My body is cold steel, for real
    2
    and Lyrics I was made to kill, that's why they keep me
    concealed
    Nas’ “Nas is Like” Video and
    Lyrics X (Nas is like...) Earth, Wind & Fire, rims and tires
    J.Cole’s “Apparently” Video and I'm taking off like "boing!" on a big ass Boeing,
    Lyrics X and getting head
    Kendrick Lamar’s “DNA” Video I got power, poison, pain and joy inside my
    and Lyrics X DNA
    Lil’ Kim ft. Missy Elliot, Da Brat,
    Left Eye, Angie Martinez “Not Lay another finger on this big bad wolf, miss
    Tonight” Video and Lyrics X lady rap singer
    Poem Simile Imagery Alliteration
    Langston Hughes’ “Harlem” Does it dry up
    Video and Lyrics X like a raisin in the sun?
    And, yes, we are far from
    polished, far from pristine, but that doesn’t
    mean we are striving to form a
    union that is perfect, we are striving to forge a
    union with purpose, to compose
    Amanda Gorman’s “Hill we a country committed to all cultures, colors,
    Climb” Video and Lyrics X characters and conditions of man.
    T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J.
    Alfred Prufrock” Video and The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the
    Lyrics X window-panes
    Shakespeare’s Sonnet #17 Be scorned, like old men of less truth than
    Video and Lyrics X tongue

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