Off-centered rhyme
An off-centered rhyme is a rhyme scheme characterized by placing rhyming words or syllables in unexpected places in a given line. This is sometimes called a misplaced-rhyme scheme, or a Spoken Word rhyme style.
Here's an example from a recording artist from De La Soul:
- Playin waitor, with the data servin' your ears
- with information due to confirmation of the nation's most
- wicked ways of livin, like them glassy eyed beans
- Inhale to smoke the fiends, while bangin' a tape
- Rated at the high point of the mass
- Rippin' MC's at the top of a class, occasionally
- rippin' some sucker's face, or some suckable ass from a girl
- It's a big brother beat for the wide wide world
This is a common rhyme scheme found in the Spoken Word form of poetry. This can be found in Hip-hop as well, but it is not as common in Hip-hop as it is in Spoken Word.
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