Question

Today's replacement of poetry and sonnets are music and lyrics. Do you think musicians/lyricists who write today pay as much attention to the meter and syllable emphasis that Shakespeare and his contemporaries did? Yes or No...and how do you know? (You can give an example of lyrics and/or links to songs to support your answer).

Please answer this journal topic with AT LEAST 6 sentences PLUS at least 2 lyrics/songs as your evidence of support.

Answer 1

I think that there are such a wide variety of musicians and generas that It can be hard to tell, but when talking about pop music I think the answer would be yes. Pop music today dosnt rely on its content as much as the beat and the flow. For example in the song, "shape of you", by Ed sheeran we have the lyrics,

"I'm in love with the shape of you,

push and pull like a magnet do."

Here we can see though holding a basic message and not being grammatically correct, it followes a very strict ryme scheme and syllable count. In each line there are 4 meters or exactly 8 syllables. We can see this pattern again in the song "", by the Jonas Brothers, in this lyric,

"I've been dancing on top of cars,

and stumbling out of bars

......

You're the medicine and the pain,

the tattoo inside my brain"

We can see here the lyrics follow a A A B B rhyme scheme, and have 8 syllables and then 7.

(sorry about spelling)