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(03-22-2014, 07:11 AM)shemthepenman Wrote: i think if you are a rapper you probably have natural meter (maybe not, i mean i don't know because you haven't posted any
, but at least give it a go - and I am sure if you had a beat in mind or in the air or just about it will help the flow. Poetry is a snobbish affair, but if you do 'different' well enough in words then it trumps all that. so my suggestion would be, get a beat machine, stick in a slow beat like flylo 90bpm or even slower toKimonsta 75bpm and then hit the off beat with some samiyam (down load rap beats volume 1 samiyam) and then just start spitting. but make your themes more strange, personal and not so cliche. this is the point of poetry, even in rap form. the best hiphop is that one you havent quite heard before and you think, what the fuck! and I think, you asking about sonnets and such means you have the will and inspiration to really do something unique. good luck, I hope you make it.
plus, post anything, raps and what not in the newly registered forum. it is all good.
rhythm wise, hows this? I wrote it to a beat I made. (Im also a producer o
it's not really meant to be particularly poetic, just something so I can get the feel of ab/ab rhyme schemes in the context of poetry with more rhythm.
