Songs are made for ears, not eyes. Because people listen to songs, you learn to write for eyeless ears. Rhyme creates the ear’s roadmap through the lyric ideas. It tells your ear where to go next, ...

Liu, Y. and Luo, Y. (2026) A Corpus-Based Study of Musicality in Zhu Shenghao’s Translation of Shakespeare’s Four Great Tragedies. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14, 425-438. doi: ...

The ghazal is an M.C.’s form: repeating words, a rhyme scheme, the self-referential last line that signals the end of the bars. When done right, every single line is a prayer. I learned the form from ...