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Shakespeare’s Square

A corner for wordplay, structure, and poetry. Bars built like sonnets and meaning built to last well past the first listen.

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Multisyllabic01

Pressure made the diamond out the coal in my collar

Every bar a dollar, scholar flipped the block to Valhalla

— Malik Yusef

Internal Rhyme02

I write in the margins where the architects forfeit

Order out of chaos, turn the chorus to a portrait

— Caleya Black

Extended Metaphor03

My pen is a compass and the page is the ocean

Ink becomes the current, every stanza a motion

— Lomel

Slant Rhyme04

They want a sonnet they can shake to in the function

So I bent the iambic till the verse had some percussion

— Devon Cole

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