Songs are made for ears, not eyes. Because people listen to songs, you learn to write for eyeless ears. Rhyme creates the ear’s roadmap through the lyric ideas. It tells your ear where to go next, ...

One of the terms we like to use at Berklee is the word prosody to describe when the music matches the lyric content of a song. When Sheryl Crow sings, “You don’t bring me anything but down”, the ...

Pattern rhyme is how we describe a poems rhyme scheme. This spaceship will demonstrate… Written in the stars is the poem: “Stars above in the night, hanging there, oh so high. Look at them, they shine ...