Freestyle Rap Rhymes – Rhyming Your Way to Victory

One of the things that I hear a lot from freestyle rappers is that they have trouble writing their freestyle rap rhymes. As I was listening to a three-year-old the other day, I decided that I would write about this today.

As I was listening to this three-year-old sing, I heard her singing song after song. Every song she sang was a song full of rhymes. One of her favorite is none other than Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Let’s take a look at this and look at how the lines rhyme.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star (A)

How I wonder what you are. (A)

Up above the world so high (B)

Like a diamond in the sky (B)

Twinkle, twinkle, little star (A)

How I wonder what you are! (A)

When the blazing sun is gone, (A)

When he nothing shines upon, (A)

Then you show your little light, (B)

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night. (B)

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, (C)

How I wonder what you are! (C)

Then the traveler in the dark (A)

Thanks you for your tiny spark; (A)

He could not see which way to go, (B)

If you did not twinkle so. (B)

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, (A)

How I wonder what you are! (A)

If you notice the first two lines rhyme. If you were to notate the rhyming pattern, you would notate it with an alphabetical letter. Notice that the first two lines rhyme. So notate each of these with the letter A.

If you look at the third line notice that it does not rhyme with either of the first two. In this case, you went then notate the third line with a B. The fourth line rhymes with the third line, so that is also B.

The 5th and 6th lines rhyme with the first two so they both are notated with the letter A. The rest of the lines have been notated.

This gives you the notation and structure of some rhymed verses. If you get stuck writing your rhymes, go back to something familiar. All of us learned a lot of nursery rhymes and short songs when we were 2, 3, 4 and 5. Go back to these and study the structure and rhyming schemes of these rhymes.