Beautiful by Eminem
According to the fans, this song is considered as one of the strongest song of relapse. He was on drugs when he had written this song, we get to know this from his lyrics. He expresses his feelings telling that the addiction he had towards drugs made him go into depression, and he felt trapped. But towards the end of the song he tells his fans that he has hope for the future and he is optimistic.
First Quatrain
“I’m just so fuckin’ depressed I just can seem to get out this slump
If I could just get over this hump But I need something to pull me out this dump,
I took my bruises, took my lumps, Fell down and I got right back up
But I need that spark to get psyched back up In order for me to pick the mic back up”
The structure in the first quatrain are three full bars and one bar, with many pauses. In this quatrain the wordplay technique is used in a very amazing way. In the first couplet Eminem rhymes the simple rhymes such as “slump”, “hump” and “dump”. In the second part, Eminem starts rhyme from the first couplet, but he changes the pattern and goes into composing three word rhyme. “ right back up” is rhymed with “ psyched back up” and “mic back up”. The rhyme scheme for this quatrain is as follows: —1
-1-1
-,-1,-2
–2–2 …show more content…
Here he rhymes the entire bar with the words “back” and “wallow”. Moving to the second bar he brakes the compound rhyme and starts to rhyme the two words separately. He then raps “sorrow” and they starts to state facts, ad when they are combined, it forms the same type of compounds. Towards the end he finishes the bar with “act to follow”. So, in short in this quatrain he first raps two compounds in the first bar, then he slides a two single rhymes from the similar family and then ends with another compound. The last couplet of this quatrain is self-explanatory as it is very simple to understand. So, the rhyme scheme for the third quatrain is as
According to the fans, this song is considered as one of the strongest song of relapse. He was on drugs when he had written this song, we get to know this from his lyrics. He expresses his feelings telling that the addiction he had towards drugs made him go into depression, and he felt trapped. But towards the end of the song he tells his fans that he has hope for the future and he is optimistic.
First Quatrain
“I’m just so fuckin’ depressed I just can seem to get out this slump
If I could just get over this hump But I need something to pull me out this dump,
I took my bruises, took my lumps, Fell down and I got right back up
But I need that spark to get psyched back up In order for me to pick the mic back up”
The structure in the first quatrain are three full bars and one bar, with many pauses. In this quatrain the wordplay technique is used in a very amazing way. In the first couplet Eminem rhymes the simple rhymes such as “slump”, “hump” and “dump”. In the second part, Eminem starts rhyme from the first couplet, but he changes the pattern and goes into composing three word rhyme. “ right back up” is rhymed with “ psyched back up” and “mic back up”. The rhyme scheme for this quatrain is as follows: —1
-1-1
-,-1,-2
–2–2 …show more content…
Here he rhymes the entire bar with the words “back” and “wallow”. Moving to the second bar he brakes the compound rhyme and starts to rhyme the two words separately. He then raps “sorrow” and they starts to state facts, ad when they are combined, it forms the same type of compounds. Towards the end he finishes the bar with “act to follow”. So, in short in this quatrain he first raps two compounds in the first bar, then he slides a two single rhymes from the similar family and then ends with another compound. The last couplet of this quatrain is self-explanatory as it is very simple to understand. So, the rhyme scheme for the third quatrain is as