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? CHORUS: 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 REPEAT CHORUS 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 REPEAT CHORUS BRIDGE 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)