Just personal observation, maybe it feels different for a professional English song lyric composer.

I don't have a spreadsheet, but so many characters have the same ending sounds in Mandarin that I could easily find a rhyming word when writing song lyrics.

English is a struggle to find a rhyming word that fits into the context of the contents, and it feels kinda like a forced rhyme.

I haven't really spoken Mandarin for over 15 years, somehow it's still easier to do rhyming.

P.S. Cantonese has more variety of sounds and less characters have the same ending sounds, so its harder to rhyme in Cantonese.

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[–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Dutch has a very rigid word order and when I do exercises on Duolingo I often create rhymes by accident.

My favorite Dutch rhyme is Nieuwe wegdek, langere remweg. It's very popular too, there are many signs with it. It means New road surface, longer breaking distance.

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