I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhym… - Joanna Newsom

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I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.

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Joanna Newsom (born 1982) is an American singer-songwriter. She plays the harp, as well as the piano and the harpischord.

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Birth Name: Joanna Caroline Newsom

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A feather of a hawk was bound
Bound around my neck
A poultice made of fig
The eager little vultures pecked

Picking through your pocket lining, well what is this?
Scrap of sassafras, eh Sisyphus?

held her there, kicking and mewling, upended, unspooling, unsung and blue; told her "wherever you go, little runaway bunny, I will find you." And then she ran, as they're liable to do.

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