The Largest Vocabulary In Hip Hop Rappers, ranked by the number of unique words used in their lyrics This project was originally published in 2014 and recently updated in January 2019 with newer lyrics data and 75 additional artists, including Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Yachty, Migos, and 21 Savage.
Such is the powre of love in gentle mind,
that it can alter all the course of kynd. Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
that it can alter all the course of kynd. Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
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Love is an extremely powerful emotion. It can kill, save, destroy and even build up a person.
The realization has come to him that love is not a toy. And that mankind can be deeply influenced and become changed because of it.
What more miraculous thing may be told
that fire which all things melts, should harden yse:
and yse which is congeald with senceless cold,
should kindle fyre by wonderfull devyse. Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
that fire which all things melts, should harden yse:
and yse which is congeald with senceless cold,
should kindle fyre by wonderfull devyse. Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
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He’s marveling at the unbelievable–“miraculous”–fact that her “cold” rejection is inflaming his intense desire for her, while his intense desire is hardening her rejection.
(It’s not so miraculous, Ed!)
but that I burne much more in boyling sweat,
and feele my flames augmented manifold? Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
and feele my flames augmented manifold? Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
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The hyperbolic boiling shows, by exaggeration, how much he’s falling in love with the woman.
augmented manifold: increased many times over.
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
is not delayd by her hart frosen cold: Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
is not delayd by her hart frosen cold: Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
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He wonders how the feelings for her haven’t died off even after all of the failed attempts of trying to get her to notice him.
how comes it then that this her cold so great
is not dissolv'd through my so hot desyre,
but harder growes the more I her intreat? Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
is not dissolv'd through my so hot desyre,
but harder growes the more I her intreat? Edmund Spenser – Amoretti: Sonnet 30
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A clever paradox that serves as a basis for the sonnet.
Fire is supposed to melt down ice. So how is it that his burning passion is only making her cold heart resist him even more?
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Ice and fire are polar opposites. He uses this simile to contrast his “burning” passion with her “cold” unresponsiveness.
Opposites attract…right?
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Judge Dredd is a adamant law enforcement officer in the future where Judges are both the police officers and the judge.
Red says you’re gonna need Johnny Cochran, the lawyer that helped O.J beat the infamous trial, to help you when going against him.
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You may have shot first, but the damage it did was only minor.
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He’s so high, he’s managed to get a call out to ET’s home planet.
Also note the wordplay with the Zoned and Phoned.
So fuck all you fools out there with the large vocabulary
In your sentence, I don't need that shit to pay my rent with (Huh) Redman – Basically
In your sentence, I don't need that shit to pay my rent with (Huh) Redman – Basically
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Check this link to see where Redman ranks amongst rappers with unique vocabularies:
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