Adding an Extra Line

When you add an extra line to verse, you have several options for how to fit this line into your rhyme scheme

It might continue the pattern, creating the structure a b a b a

Your added line might rhyme with the line that precedes it

Your added line might even be something new that doesn’t rhyme with anything else in the verse, creating the structure a b a b x

I Can't Make You Love Me - B. Raitt

Lay Down Sally - E. Clapton

Killer Queen - Queen

Got To Get You Into My Life - The Beatles

I Love Rock and Roll - J. Jett

I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith

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