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Originally Posted by Lost Hills
Don't think that every line needs to rhyme. Most lines should, but meter and phrasing can make up for lack of a rhyme. Listen to Bob Dylan, and then look at a printout of the lyrics. You'll find that he uses the corniest and most attrocious rhymes imaginable, at times, and at other times he doesn't worry about rhyming at all.


Last night I listened to Alan Jackson do his hit from the mid 90s called "Home." I noticed these lines which didn't actually rhyme at all but they didn't detract from the song at all either:

In a small town down in Georgia over forty years ago
Her maiden name was Music til she met that Jackson boy

And those were the opening lines of the song which was even more surprising to me.

This was the beginning of another verse after chorus:

My daddy skinned his knuckles on the cars that he repaired
He never earned much money but he gave us all he had

Granted Alan wrote the song and by that time could probably already call a lot of the shots in his career but the lines work well.
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