Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming

This excellent book takes an in-depth look at rhyme and all of the many ways it contributes to the overall effect of a song lyric, such as the way rhyme connects ideas as well as sounds. Perfect and imperfect rhyme, internal rhyme, additive and subtractive rhyme, phonetic relationships, plosives, fricatives, nasals...every aspect of rhyming is covered. Filled with examples and exercises, this is as much a workbook as it is a handy reference, making it an extremely useful "how-to" book for any lyricist at any level!