Flow Like Poe

Edgar Allan Poe y'all

Listen to me flow y'all

Yo it's Edgar Allan Poe with a flow so poetic

Melancholy wordsmith - style so phonetic

Got a raven on my shoulder - gothic thematics

Demonic alcoholic - multisyllabic

It's a habit - take a look and I'm sure you'll find

That the mechanics of rap are the mechanics of rhyme

And when we analyze the rhythm of the units to the meter

Long short, short long - doesn't matter, look at either

An iamb is two syllables unstressed, stressed which

The words insane, explain and delight all express

A trochee on the other hand, goes stressed, unstressed

Words like coffee, crazy, giant - so prepared to be impressed

(But Poe what's an anapest?) Words like tambourine

cavalier and Marianne, and by that I mean

two unstressed, stressed syllables in succession

that's our first lesson, okay any questions?

Flow like Poe (I'm going hard on that tetrameter)

Flow like Poe (I'm going hard on that tetrameter)

Flow like Poe (I'm going hard on that tetrameter)

This is lit-hop 101 with MC Edgar Allan Poe

Flow like Poe (I'm going hard on that tetrameter)

Flow like Poe (I'm going hard on that tetrameter)

Flow like Poe (I'm going hard on that tetrameter)

If you don't know, now you know

Dimeter, means two feet, trimeter three

Tetrameter is four, so pentameter must be

Five pairs of syllables, Shakespearean sonnets

"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" now you got it

Unstressed, stressed, five times, flow iambic

Stressed, unstressed watch me flip the dynamic like

Once upon a midnight dreary,

that's the start of my couplet clearly

trochaic octameter, rhythm might damage

The cadence is so quick, but I think your ear can manage

Mysterious sci-fi rhymes always getting hotter

Drunk in the club watch me holler at your daughter

Baltimore ravens, that's my team

Original hipster, well it might seem

From the Bronx back to Boston, I'm rockin' the 'stache

Got Emerson and Twain, both talkin' mad trash

Iambic assonance bringing passion just like that

Cutting with the consonance I kill it I attack

Alliterating awesomely amazing add the energy

Pentameter is popping with the literary entropy

I'm on these spondees dactylic swagger

the similes I drop are sharper than daggers

My metaphors are arrows, call me Katnis Everdeen

Hunger games with the quill illest MC ever seen

Check the Emily Dickinson, slant rhyme, 'cause I'm spittin' some

Strange and creepy magnificence, 19th century citizen

Hella props well I'm getting some, darker than Charles Dickins, son

Gory stories I've written 'em, teenage corpses I'm kissin' them

'Cause ladies I'm missin' 'em, and I've influenced Eminem

With the horrorcore flavor so call me Jonathan Livingston

Got that the onomatopoeia poppin' off in the classroom

Bringing poetry to life with these literary rap tunes

When I'm on the mic

Everybody's feeling it

Hands up in the sky (haiku bridge yo)

Wave 'em side to side

You can touch the ceiling kid

Like you just don't care (5-7-5 bro)