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Street Poetry Rhyme Scheme
Many poems have their own original ideas behind them and Street Poetry is not an exception to this. This poem has quite a few couplets and rhyming in it. It also has a funky form with one quintain and two quatrains also. I personally like this poem because of the meaning behind it. Also the last line is very meaningful to me. My opinion also did not change based on the analization of this poem.
First off, Street Poetry is a spoken word with poem with one quintain and 2 quatrains. Street Poetry has many couplets and rhyme. An example of this is “This is not rap, this is not hip hop/Just another attempt to make the voices stop.” Street Poetry also has an example of off-rhyme, “Mindless zombies walking around with a limp and a hunch/Saying stuff like you only live once.” The poem also has a paradox in it in the end, “Because death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.” This is a paradox because at first glance the phrase doesn’t make sense at all, but if you actually think about it, it does make sense. This is also a simile because it uses like and it’s comparing two unlike things. It also has many rhymes, for example, “I hope they choke on smoke,” has a rhyme in it.
At the same time, I like this poem quite a bit. I originally found this poem because the writer/performer is Tyler Joseph, who is in Twenty One Pilots. I like this poem
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I don’t dislike or like Street Poetry more or less after analyzing it. I personally don’t understand how analyzing a poem could affect your opinion on it. One of the main reasons that I like this poem so much is because of the paradox at the end of it because it has so much meaning to me personally. I find it to be a very strong ending for a poem. It’s a really strong ending because not all poets end on something as heavy as “Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.” Also the rhymes make it flow easily, which is pleasing to the ears in my

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