Advanced Songwriting Lyric Tips: A Fresh Inner Rhyming Technique
One of my favorite songwriting lyric tips and tricks is to use inner rhyming to my advantage by continually finding fresh ways to use this type of effective rhyming. Inner rhyming has a tendency to build momentum in any part of your song, so if you’re looking to add life to your creations, this method of rhyming is an outstanding, contemporary choice.
Next time you’re using inner rhyming in a song, try not ending any verse line with a usual rhyme. Instead, use inner rhyming on every line until you get to the chorus.
For example, this technique really works well in r&b or pop songs which are beat-driven, but you can definitely use it in any song genre. Keep in mind I’m just making up lines that come to my head in real-time just to show you this example:
I’ve never mentioned this to you before
But the more I talk to you
The more I’m sure you know
I’m trying to go slow but I’m having trouble
I get puzzled by the way you say
You’d like to stay but you gotta’ go
Hey, I know you should command respect
But i feel like a wreck on a deserted island
Cause with you I’m finding
I may be heading where nobody will ever find me…..
{Chorus}
This is a fairly decent first draft that would take some rewriting but you get the picture. I like the way the first verse ended but the first few lines need a little work!
Notice in the 2nd and third lines:
But the more I talk to you
The more I’m sure you know
The last word you is not really inner-rhymed because I intentionally placed it close to the end of the following line before the word “know.” This is actually a common advanced songwriting lyric writing technique where the songwriter can actually control the rhythmic momentum of a song by not rhyming two or three lines, then rhyming the following lines thereafter, creating more excitement after the non-rhymed lines.
Take this example and use variations such as rhyming the first two or three lines of a verse, then going into total inner rhyming to speed up and bring excitement to your song. The possibilities are endless!
