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The Thesaurus

A thesaurus is a book which shows similar words for a chosen word. You may suffer from using non-descriptive words in your lyrics, but rhyme perfectly on every bar. What this will translate to in flow is nursery rhymes where the emphasis comes across are overly used small and cliched words such as; big, now, good and see. In a thesaurus those same four words may be equivalent to; monstrous, uncooked, angelic and visualize. These precise and generally longer words tell a more engaging description of your lyrics. Many times you may not be aware that your bars even need this kind of treatment until you force edit them and substitute enhanced words regardless of how perfect you personally think your bar is. One snag is that a thesaurus is unreliable when it comes to the actual rhyming of your bar. If you decide that the rhyming word needs to be substituted you may find yourself in a mess as the rhyming word is often the last word of a bar. This means you may have to change the word at the bar before or after, which in turns makes you change the structure of the bar, which in turns may change the intentioned meaning you had in the first place, which may lead to conflict in the two bars. Ironically, depending on how creative a word was chosen could mean there is not much for you to rhyme with anyway.

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