The resulting Delta blues style is regarded as the most elemental form and is characterized by uneven rhyming patterns, minimal melody, spoken rather than sung lyrics, and moaning vocalizations.

A study of tracks from the debut albums of major hip hop artists has found that rhyming patterns come as second nature to some of rap's biggest stars - likening them to modern-day poets. Linguists at ...

Musicality is also important; things such as the rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables - often referred to as meter - as well as the rhyme scheme, the pattern of rhyming words ...

The same goes for the third and fourth lines. Limericks follow a strict rhyming pattern. In a limerick the first, second and fifth lines have the same rhythm and rhyme. The third and fourth lines ...