OK, that is not an actual poem, but to make “dear” rhyme with “near”, I hyphenated “nearby”, letting the “by” drop over onto the next line. If that is not there, well, it just sounds awkward. If the stress changes to “I LIVE across the road” – which some lyricists do when they get stuck – it emphasises “live” which means that, to make sense, there needs to be some indication of what else the person does across the road. When you say “I live aCROSS the road”, the stress is normally on the 2nd syllable of the word “across” – in other words the most “normal” use or meaning of the phrase. Other than in free verse, where no rhyming scheme or meter apply, when a poet tries to force a rhyming scheme on a poem, or a lyricist tries too hard to make meter work, the problem is that they alter the normal pattern of emphases in a word or phrase, and a mother tongue speaker of the language immediately notice it, and it makes the language uncomfortable.įor example, the word “UnCOMfortable” has the stress on the 2nd syllable, not the 1st, 3rd or 4th syllable.
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