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The core of the rhyming scheme is assonance:
assonance: matching vowels. (shake, hate) Assonance is sometimes referred to as slant rhymes, along with consonance.
Eminem is deliberately bending the pronunciation of each word so that they sound similar. This moves the vowel sounds of each rhyme into an assonance rhyme. An example of how "orange" in particular breaks down:
"four inch" (assonance due to the g vs ch)
"door hinge" (perfect/feminine)
"storage" (assonance due to the ng vs g)
"porridge" (assonance due to the ng vs dg)
"George" (assonance due to r vs g and ng vs rg)
One thing of note is that rap tends to also care about how the sounds are spread throughout a sentence. If you break out the common sounds (using Eminem's pronunciation) you get something like this:
Oh as in Orange, four, door, stOrage, pOrridge and GeOrge
Ih as in orAnge, inch, hinge, in, storAge, porrIdge, with, GeoRGe
R as in orange, four, door, storage, porridge, George
Ndg as in orange, inch (almost), hinge
Dg as in storage, porridge, George
What different types of rhymes are used here?
assonance: matching vowels. (shake, hate) Assonance is sometimes referred to as slant rhymes, along with consonance.
Eminem is deliberately bending the pronunciation of each word so that they sound similar. This moves the vowel sounds of each rhyme into an assonance rhyme. An example of how "orange" in particular breaks down:
"four inch" (assonance due to the g vs ch)
"door hinge" (perfect/feminine)
"storage" (assonance due to the ng vs g)
"porridge" (assonance due to the ng vs dg)
"George" (assonance due to r vs g and ng vs rg)
One thing of note is that rap tends to also care about how the sounds are spread throughout a sentence. If you break out the common sounds (using Eminem's pronunciation) you get something like this:
Oh as in Orange, four, door, stOrage, pOrridge and GeOrge
Ih as in orAnge, inch, hinge, in, storAge, porrIdge, with, GeoRGe
R as in orange, four, door, storage, porridge, George
Ndg as in orange, inch (almost), hinge
Dg as in storage, porridge, George
What different types of rhymes are used here?
