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the cheapest trick in poetry, and the one your brain refuses to forget.

means The matching of similar sounds, usually at the ends of words or lines, especially in poetry and song.

from From Old French 'rime,' meaning verse or meter, which traces back to Latin 'rhythmus' and Greek 'rhythmos' (measured flow). The 'h' is a later affectation: scholars added it to make the word look more like Greek 'rhythm,' even though the two had drifted apart in meaning. So the spelling itself is a bit of borrowed prestige — a word dressing up to seem more classical than it needed to be.

shakespeare's flex
His sonnets crammed rhymes into strict 14-line cages
orange problem
Few perfect rhymes exist for it in English
memory hack
Rhyming text recalls better, proven in studies
rap engine
Multisyllabic rhyme schemes built entire hip-hop empires
odd spelling
The silent 'h' was added by mistaken scholars
for instance

rap battle 8 mile — detroit freestyle rap competition featured in the 2002 eminem film

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