Word: rhyming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Gaddafi is often described as a madman, an irrational mystic who speaks in rhyme but without reason, there is a contorted yet intent philosophical underpinning to his actions and ideology. His madness has method in it--indeed, his apparent madness is a method. His very unpredictability is a way of keeping his enemies off guard. He revels when those in the West denounce him as a devil; it only confirms the righteousness of his cause...
Dylan can twist his words into stunningly complex alliterative or rhyme schemes, using the sound of the words to build associations and feelings, or he can tell a simple story, constantly repeating verses or choruses with his improvised country diction to make his point. He can write about the endless variations of love or about the emptiness felt inside watching a derelict die on the street. His earliest songs, many of them never recorded, are wide-eyed youthful reflections on the misfortune and injustice he saw as he journeyed through America. He writes about having no money, he writes about...
...hint. Freewheelin' Bob is constantly on the move, and Lyrics, 1962-1985 is not a last gasp but yet another edition of Dylan's works in progress. Capturing so much of the human experience with his wit, insight and honesty, and more or less a sense of rhyme, Duluth, Minnesota's most famous son has published an awesome volume for anyone who cares about anything. And more than that, it's a tremendously good read...
...poem was written in an internal rhyme style, which means that words rhyme within each line--a style Shakespeare had not previously used. Because Shakespeare was a frequent innovator, his use of a different style indicates further that he might have written it, Taylor said...
WILLIAM & MARY 35, PRINCETON 31. Princeton quarterback Doug Butler, taking a page out of Redskin signalcaller Joe Theismann's book, tries to get his last name to rhyme with "Heisman" to improve his chances of winning that famous trophy...