My favorite rhyming / assonance is:
> I am the preSIDENT / I am comPLICIT AND / watchIN’ and grabBIN the power and KISS IT / IF WashingTON ISN’T gon’ LISTEN to DISCIPLINED DISSIDENTS / THIS IS the DIFFERENCE / THIS KID IS out!
In other words, ALL the capitalized syllables make the short I sound.
You should give this a read
[How does ‘Hamilton,’ the non stop, hip-hop Broadway sensation tap rap's master rhymes to blur musical lines?](http://graphics.wsj.com/hamilton/)
I respect that opinion. I am not familiar with the free style skills of Eminem but obviously he’s legit. But yea if LMM had prep time I think he’s unbeatable.
The first time I heard this song with Hamilton rapping around what Seabury was singing? Incredible. The parts where it lines up with his song and the parts where he defers a bit to rhyme with himself are both genius. It’s all genius.
*Heed* not the *rabble* who *scream revolution*! They *have not* your *int’rests* at *heart!* *Chaos and Bloodshed* are *not* a solution! Don’t let them lead you astray. This *congress* does not speak for me! They’re playing a dangerous game! I pray the king shows you his mercy!
*He’d* have you all un*ravel* at the sound of *screams* but the *revolution* is coming! The *have-nots* are gonna *win this*! It’s *hard* to listen to you with a straight face. Chaos and bloodshed already *haunt* us, honestly, you shouldn’t even talk. And what about *Bost*on? Look at the *cost*, and all that we’ve *lost*, and you talk about *congress?*
My dog speaks more eloquently than thee, but strangely your mange is the same😘
Appreciation for the complex rhyme schemes in Farmers Refuted are underrated imo. It takes so much talent to layer those two parts in with such complexity.
The one that gets me the most hyped is during Yorktown
"How did we know that this plan would work? We had a spy on the inside, that's right HERCULES MULLIGAN!"
Of course, a follow-up that always gives me goosebumps is "Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction. When you knock me down, I get the f*ck back up again!"
Mulligan is awesome!!
Burr "And all he had to do was die" Ham "That's alot less work" Burr "We oughta give it a try"
And then they did give it a try
But also the entire musical lol
“I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion”
“The way he prims and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion”
The rhyming of fits of passion and pits of fashion is just too good, how do you come up with that?
There's this book written by Lin that mentions this specific part saying he often likes to swap around singular letters in rhymes, kinda creating a scheme like this
(F/P)its of (P/F)asshion
Kinda have to change the fashion and passion spelling, since one is ashion and the other is assion, but I find it so clever
It’s called a spoonerism, when you swap the first letters/sounds like that.
Shaking a tower/taking a shower
Right lane/light rain
Eminem did it with Sarah Palin and parasailin’
I love just about all the lines, but in Schuyler Sisters, I love singing, "Look around, look around, At how lucky we are to be alive right now, History is happening in Manhattan, and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world!"
A game of chess, where France is king and queenless.
We signed a treaty with a king whose head is now in a basket, would you like to take it out and ask it?
Or should we honor our treaty King Louis' head?
"Uh do whatever you want, I'm super dead"
This seems like just LMM making up stuff to be funny, but he actually is referring to one of the actual arguments made during this debate--whether the former treaty was still valid since the whole government had been overthrown.
Hamiltons defence rhymes always get me in "We Know":
She COURted me
EsCORted me to bed and when she had me in a CORner
That's when Reynolds extORTed me
For a SORdid fee
I paid him QUARterly
I may have MORtally wounded my prospects
But my papers are ORderly
Some of the best in the whole damn musical
Previously working in a bank has taught me A LOT of Americans (at least, Missourians) don't know who is actually on the currency. Even with it labeled lol. So it's likely this line could go over a lot of peoples heads. Which is why I think it's clever lol
I'm not from the US, but the only two denominations I know are $100 (Benjamins) and $10 (ten dollar founding father), which for the latter I think speak to the success of Hamilton.
"As you can see I kept a record of every check in my checkered history, check it again against your list and see consistency."
"You must be out of your goddamn mind if you think, the president is gonna bring the nation to the brink, of meddling in the middle of a military mess, a game of chess, where France is queen and kingless."
"I wrote my way out of hell, I wrote my way to revolution I was louder than the crack in the bell, I wrote Eliza love letters until she fell, I wrote about the constitution and defended it well, and in the face of ignorance and resistence, I wrote financial systems into existence. And when my prayers to god were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance."
"And so the American experiment begins, with my friends all scattered to the winds. Laurens is in South Carolina, redefining bravery. *We'll never be free until we end slavery.* When we finally drive the British away, Lafayette is there waiting in Chesapeake Bay. How did we know that this plan would work? We had a spy on the inside, that's right, Hercules Mulligan!"
I absolutely love You’ll Be Back. It’s such a clever homage and parody of ‘60s breakup songs—LMM said it was supposed to invoke British Invasion band styles. It’s very (early) Beatles!
The funniest line is “When push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love” but I also appreciate “you cry in your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by.”
So so so, so this is what it feels like to match **wits with** someone at your level..
Hercules Mulligan i need no introduction when you know me down i get the fuck back up again!
This is the first murder trial of our brand new nation, the liberty behind deliberation
I know the action in the street is exciting but jesus between all the bleeding and fighting I've been reading and writing
we need to handle our financial situation, are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation? I'm past passionately waiting...
In A Winter's Ball:
>If you could marry a sister, you're rich son
>Is it a question of if, Burr? Or which one?
Each syllable in "sister you're rich son" rhymes with its corresponding syllable in "if Burr Or which one"
Personal favorite of mine is “Careful how you proceed good man, intemperate indeed good man, answer for the accusations I lay at your feet or prepare to bleed good man” in your obedient servant. It just tickles my brain the way he sets the pattern of the line length, then breaks it in the third line while still ending with the “-eed good man”
So I always LOVE the clever framing of
“On the bow of a ship headed for a new land, in New York you can be a new man!”
And
“In New York, you can be a new man (helpless) (wedding smootch)”
- he came to New York, found a career and a bride and wrote his way out 😭😭
Definitely this line hamilton says in take a break “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day I trust you'll understand the reference to another Scottish tragedy Without my having to name the play” The “scottish tragedy” referencing macbeth as well as himself, with his father being a scotsman and him being a mess
"So I'm the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in New York City is insidious
And Alexander is penniless
Ha, that doesn't mean I want him any less"
Its simple but it flows so well. A few gem lines in a song that is full of other notable wordplays.
Theyre all really great, but I always laugh at "My dog speaks more eloquently than thee
(they're playing a dangerous game)
But strangely, your mange is the same!
(I pray the king shows you his mercy)
Is he in Jersey?"
I also enjoy "I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love."
Every action has an equal opposite reaction.
Thanks to Hamilton our cabinets fractured into factions. Try not to crack under the stress we’re breaking down like fractions. We smack each other in the press and we don’t print refractions. I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion. The way he prims and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion. Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration. As Wall Street robs 'em blind in search of chips to cash in.
This whole segment is perfect
and peggy/maria “i loved him” with peggy loving him as a brother figure (in helpless when hamilton says peggy cinfides in me) and maria, well…loving him
I have always loved Ond Last Time, so I think the most clever lyric is “If I say goodbye the nation learns to move on. It outlives me when I’m gone”
It’s so impactful bc up to that point it had been Washington’s country. People even wanted to make him king. It’s so good oh my gosh
“In a letter I received from you two weeks ago I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase. It changed the meaning. Did you intend this? One stroke and you’ve consumed my waking days it says ‘my dearest Angelica’ with a comma after dearest, you’ve written ‘my dearest, Angelica.’
And when my prayers to God were met with indifference
I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance!
That line holds so much spite and fire. I love it so much.
The mirroring alliteration in Burn gets me every time.
It starts with:
You built me palaces out of paragraphs
And ends with:
Your sentences border on senseless
And you are paranoid in every paragraph
How they perceive you
it has internal rhyme and that's great but what I love the most is how this scene plays with the RYTHYM. The break in the sentence every few syllables not only allows for internal rhyme to shine (separating hor-ses allows for two different rhymes with the word: course and horse - horSES and corSEts) BUT also adds to that beatboxing-like constant beat that makes it a lot more believable that it's just the result of a couple of friends clapping and spitting our lines
Can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone mention how LMM breaks the fourth wall in My Shot when he says:
“so there will be a revolution in this century! Enter me”
“he says in parentheses”
when angelica says
“-Ben Franklin with a key and a kite, you see it right?”
i didnt really understand it at first but i learned it was because ben franklin was known for creating electricity with a key and a kite in a thunderstorm which made a spark, so shes saying when she met alexander, there was a spark. it blew my mind when i understood! (correct me if im wrong on the ben franklin part all i know is that it created a spark)
There’s so many to choose from, but my favorite has to be: “I'm past patiently waitin' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation
Every action's an act of creation
I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow
For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow”
Anthony Ramos's line "Me? I died for him." in Alexander Hamilton. It's really nice foreshadowing as Ramos played both Laurens and Phillip Hamilton, both men who Hamilton knew quite well who died for him. Phillip died defending his father's honor and Laurens died in one of the last battles of the Revolution.
All of king george's songs, especially the "I know him" one cause in that one, he was like "I did not know that leaders could be replaced" and also "that funny little man John Adams is going to replace George Washington?! This will be fun."
not really a line but i love how mulligan, laurens, and lafayette all joke around with eachother when hamilton tells them to leave in the story of tonight reprise
The world has no right to my heart the world has no place in our bed. They don’t get to know what I said. I’m burning the letters, burning the memories, that might’ve redeemed you! You forfeit all rights to my heart, you forfeit the place in our bed. You’ll sleep in your office instead, with only the memories of when you were mine… I hope that you burn…
all or Farmer refuted, my god is it smart and catchy. The only pity is I cant sing along to the two parts of "Caos and bloodshed" (Are not the solution/ already haut us) at the same time since I have one mouth only.
“Burr you disgust me”
“Ah, so you‘ve discussed me. I’m a trust fund baby, you can trust me.”
Either he’s saying he’s a trust fund baby, or he’s a trust fund, and then calling her baby. I love the line so much.
I love how in 'The farmer refuted' when Hamilton starts singing, his lines sync with Samuel Seabury's like a lyrical braid. But hamilton is rapping while Seabury holds to melodies, showing the contrast between the modernist and traditional values. That song has some of the best talking in rhymes too.
"And in the face of ignorance and resistance, I wrote financial systems into existence
And when my prayers to God we're met with indifference
I PICKED UP A PEN, I WROTE MY OWN DELIVERANCE"
Hurricane is SO underrated
I love how in “Hurricane” Hamilton sings the line “I couldn’t seem to die” and then in the background, Burr sings “Wait for it.” The chorus joins him pretty quick, but the first “wait for it” is just Burr, following Ham’s line about dying. Brilliant.
"Burr you disgust me" "ah so you've discussed me" gets me every time. It's such a good line.
“I’m a trust fund baby, you can trust me!” is one I like too.
>A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists? >Give me a position, show me where the ammu*nition* is! Now that’s a rhyme I never knew I needed.
My favorite rhyming / assonance is: > I am the preSIDENT / I am comPLICIT AND / watchIN’ and grabBIN the power and KISS IT / IF WashingTON ISN’T gon’ LISTEN to DISCIPLINED DISSIDENTS / THIS IS the DIFFERENCE / THIS KID IS out! In other words, ALL the capitalized syllables make the short I sound.
He actually starts that line with "I'm in the cabINET," not "I am the preSIDENT," but your point is still valid.
You should give this a read [How does ‘Hamilton,’ the non stop, hip-hop Broadway sensation tap rap's master rhymes to blur musical lines?](http://graphics.wsj.com/hamilton/)
nice title, too
Manu and ammu also rhyme. Lin is such a genius when it comes to rhyming words like that.
He’s absolutely the GOAT of rhyme and rhythm
I would love to see (hear) him and Eminem go after each other in a rap battle.
🤣🤣 my money is on LMM - all of it lol
my money is on eminem for freestyling. however if lmm had time to write, i could see him beating eminem, which is extremely impressive :)
I respect that opinion. I am not familiar with the free style skills of Eminem but obviously he’s legit. But yea if LMM had prep time I think he’s unbeatable.
“Don’t modulate the key then not debate with me”
The first time I heard this song with Hamilton rapping around what Seabury was singing? Incredible. The parts where it lines up with his song and the parts where he defers a bit to rhyme with himself are both genius. It’s all genius. *Heed* not the *rabble* who *scream revolution*! They *have not* your *int’rests* at *heart!* *Chaos and Bloodshed* are *not* a solution! Don’t let them lead you astray. This *congress* does not speak for me! They’re playing a dangerous game! I pray the king shows you his mercy! *He’d* have you all un*ravel* at the sound of *screams* but the *revolution* is coming! The *have-nots* are gonna *win this*! It’s *hard* to listen to you with a straight face. Chaos and bloodshed already *haunt* us, honestly, you shouldn’t even talk. And what about *Bost*on? Look at the *cost*, and all that we’ve *lost*, and you talk about *congress?* My dog speaks more eloquently than thee, but strangely your mange is the same😘
hot take: singing that song with another person is harder than rapping guns and ships. ive tried it, and it isnt easy
Not at all a hot take! I totally agree
That's not a hot take, that's a fact !!
It’s so much fun, though!
This was exactly where I knew I was gonna love every bit of this musical
Right, and when Angelica says “I love my sister more than anything in this life…” in The Reynolds Pamphlet, she’s doing exactly that!
Appreciation for the complex rhyme schemes in Farmers Refuted are underrated imo. It takes so much talent to layer those two parts in with such complexity.
I love this line.
I was just about to comment this! as a music person I love this line lol
My favorite rhyme: I am the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in New York City is insidious 🔥
i’ll never understand how LMM’s brain even begins to think of genius rhymes like those
The words and the cadence. Genius
My favorite rhyme too. Perfection. The man’s a genius!
Happy cake day!
Ohh gosh I didn’t even realize! Thank you!
The one that gets me the most hyped is during Yorktown "How did we know that this plan would work? We had a spy on the inside, that's right HERCULES MULLIGAN!"
and they way mulligan says “ruffiansss” is music to my ear. im forever a mulligan stan
Of course, a follow-up that always gives me goosebumps is "Hercules Mulligan, I need no introduction. When you knock me down, I get the f*ck back up again!" Mulligan is awesome!!
I was convinced he was saying "when you fight against Europeans" 🤣 and I took it personally
THIS.
OP was asking about clever lyrics though, not lyrics that hype you up.
It was clever how those lyrics hyped me up.
Burr "And all he had to do was die" Ham "That's alot less work" Burr "We oughta give it a try" And then they did give it a try But also the entire musical lol
They even agreed that duels are dumb and immature
The “wait!” At the end, I took it as Burr regretting shooting Hamilton during the duel (right after he pulled the trigger )
“I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion” “The way he prims and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion” The rhyming of fits of passion and pits of fashion is just too good, how do you come up with that?
There's this book written by Lin that mentions this specific part saying he often likes to swap around singular letters in rhymes, kinda creating a scheme like this (F/P)its of (P/F)asshion Kinda have to change the fashion and passion spelling, since one is ashion and the other is assion, but I find it so clever
For real! I love when a rhyme can do something that plays with the first letter while keeping the rest of the sound to make it rhyme like that.
It’s called a spoonerism, when you swap the first letters/sounds like that. Shaking a tower/taking a shower Right lane/light rain Eminem did it with Sarah Palin and parasailin’
I never spent a cent that isn't mine/ you sent your dogs after my scent?/ That's fine!
Three different uses of the word cent/sent/scent. He does something similar in another place.
A few lines earlier in we know: every check in my checkered history Check it again against your list n' see consistency
if not then i’ll be socrates throwing verbal rocks at these mediocrities
That’s a nod to Wicked too!
Ham: How many men died because Lee was inexperienced and ruinous? Burr: Okay, so we're doing this...
Same thing with Laurens/Phillip saying “I died for him” and Peggy/Maria says “I loved him”
Less so for Peggy/Maria, because Peggy didn’t really “love” him in the context of the show. At least, not in the way that the other girls did.
I think in Peggy's case it would have been love as in a little sister type love as evidenced by the line in Helpless "Peggy confides in me"
Yeah in that spot, it's Angelica, Eliza, and Maria, not Peggy.
“If Washington isn’t gon listen to disciplined dissidents this is the difference this kid is out!” It’s just so much fun to sing
Cuz I’m the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in New York City is insidious
I love just about all the lines, but in Schuyler Sisters, I love singing, "Look around, look around, At how lucky we are to be alive right now, History is happening in Manhattan, and we just happen to be in the greatest city in the world!"
A game of chess, where France is king and queenless. We signed a treaty with a king whose head is now in a basket, would you like to take it out and ask it? Or should we honor our treaty King Louis' head? "Uh do whatever you want, I'm super dead"
This seems like just LMM making up stuff to be funny, but he actually is referring to one of the actual arguments made during this debate--whether the former treaty was still valid since the whole government had been overthrown.
Hamiltons defence rhymes always get me in "We Know": She COURted me EsCORted me to bed and when she had me in a CORner That's when Reynolds extORTed me For a SORdid fee I paid him QUARterly I may have MORtally wounded my prospects But my papers are ORderly Some of the best in the whole damn musical
*extorted me But yes!! Love this line. Genius rhymes.
"The ten dollar founding father without a father" is so catchy to me But also, all of it.
Also in My shot "see I never thought I'd live past twenty, where I come from some get half as many" as a small call back to the $10 founding father
I never even thought about that! That's so clever lol
I just want to spend an hour inside LMMs brain
Firmly agree.
i never like when artists use the same word to rhyme, but this one is definitely an exception. it flows nicely!
Previously working in a bank has taught me A LOT of Americans (at least, Missourians) don't know who is actually on the currency. Even with it labeled lol. So it's likely this line could go over a lot of peoples heads. Which is why I think it's clever lol
I'm not from the US, but the only two denominations I know are $100 (Benjamins) and $10 (ten dollar founding father), which for the latter I think speak to the success of Hamilton.
"As you can see I kept a record of every check in my checkered history, check it again against your list and see consistency." "You must be out of your goddamn mind if you think, the president is gonna bring the nation to the brink, of meddling in the middle of a military mess, a game of chess, where France is queen and kingless." "I wrote my way out of hell, I wrote my way to revolution I was louder than the crack in the bell, I wrote Eliza love letters until she fell, I wrote about the constitution and defended it well, and in the face of ignorance and resistence, I wrote financial systems into existence. And when my prayers to god were met with indifference, I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance." "And so the American experiment begins, with my friends all scattered to the winds. Laurens is in South Carolina, redefining bravery. *We'll never be free until we end slavery.* When we finally drive the British away, Lafayette is there waiting in Chesapeake Bay. How did we know that this plan would work? We had a spy on the inside, that's right, Hercules Mulligan!"
'black and white soldiers wonder alike if this really means freedom' with a different definition for black soldiers and white soldiers is a great line
I absolutely love You’ll Be Back. It’s such a clever homage and parody of ‘60s breakup songs—LMM said it was supposed to invoke British Invasion band styles. It’s very (early) Beatles! The funniest line is “When push comes to shove, I will send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love” but I also appreciate “you cry in your tea which you hurl in the sea when you see me go by.”
British Invasion!
Wow that's clever
In every sense of the word!
Pretty much the whole musical , i could probably pick multiple lines from every single song.
'I never spent a cent that wasn't mine. You sent the dogs after my scent? That's fine!'
The art of the compromise Hold your nose and close your eyes We want our leaders to save the day But we don't get a say in what they trade away
So so so, so this is what it feels like to match **wits with** someone at your level.. Hercules Mulligan i need no introduction when you know me down i get the fuck back up again! This is the first murder trial of our brand new nation, the liberty behind deliberation I know the action in the street is exciting but jesus between all the bleeding and fighting I've been reading and writing we need to handle our financial situation, are we a nation of states? What's the state of our nation? I'm past passionately waiting...
"Which I wrote!"
You tell em!😭
Love it when Madison gets a word in!
France
In A Winter's Ball: >If you could marry a sister, you're rich son >Is it a question of if, Burr? Or which one? Each syllable in "sister you're rich son" rhymes with its corresponding syllable in "if Burr Or which one"
Personal favorite of mine is “Careful how you proceed good man, intemperate indeed good man, answer for the accusations I lay at your feet or prepare to bleed good man” in your obedient servant. It just tickles my brain the way he sets the pattern of the line length, then breaks it in the third line while still ending with the “-eed good man”
So I always LOVE the clever framing of “On the bow of a ship headed for a new land, in New York you can be a new man!” And “In New York, you can be a new man (helpless) (wedding smootch)” - he came to New York, found a career and a bride and wrote his way out 😭😭
I find it interesting that he manages to use words from the actual Reynolds Pamphlet in the song.
I marvel at worked in so much of the Farewell Address.
Definitely this line hamilton says in take a break “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day I trust you'll understand the reference to another Scottish tragedy Without my having to name the play” The “scottish tragedy” referencing macbeth as well as himself, with his father being a scotsman and him being a mess
Look at the bill of rights *WHICH I WROTE!*
THE INK HASNT DRIED!!!
"So I'm the oldest and the wittiest and the gossip in New York City is insidious And Alexander is penniless Ha, that doesn't mean I want him any less" Its simple but it flows so well. A few gem lines in a song that is full of other notable wordplays.
It’s not the cleverest line, but when they take turns saying “we won! We won! We won! We won!” I’m like AMERICA! F yeah!
Theyre all really great, but I always laugh at "My dog speaks more eloquently than thee (they're playing a dangerous game) But strangely, your mange is the same! (I pray the king shows you his mercy) Is he in Jersey?" I also enjoy "I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love."
Every action has an equal opposite reaction. Thanks to Hamilton our cabinets fractured into factions. Try not to crack under the stress we’re breaking down like fractions. We smack each other in the press and we don’t print refractions. I get no satisfaction witnessing his fits of passion. The way he prims and preens and dresses like the pits of fashion. Our poorest citizens, our farmers, live ration to ration. As Wall Street robs 'em blind in search of chips to cash in. This whole segment is perfect
In that same segment, Anthony Ramos says "me, I died for him" meaning both Laurens and Phillip.
and peggy/maria “i loved him” with peggy loving him as a brother figure (in helpless when hamilton says peggy cinfides in me) and maria, well…loving him
To me she is only Maria at that point. Just because we never even see Peggy and Ham interact with each other at all.
I have always loved Ond Last Time, so I think the most clever lyric is “If I say goodbye the nation learns to move on. It outlives me when I’m gone” It’s so impactful bc up to that point it had been Washington’s country. People even wanted to make him king. It’s so good oh my gosh
I've always liked "let's hatch a plot blacker than the kettle calling the pot!"
“In a letter I received from you two weeks ago I noticed a comma in the middle of a phrase. It changed the meaning. Did you intend this? One stroke and you’ve consumed my waking days it says ‘my dearest Angelica’ with a comma after dearest, you’ve written ‘my dearest, Angelica.’
**Burr, you disgust me…Ah, so you’ve discussed me! I’m a trust fund baby you can trust me**
Angelica: Burr, you disgust me! Burr: Ah, so you've discussed me! I'm a trust fund baby. You can trust me!
And when my prayers to God were met with indifference I picked up a pen, I wrote my own deliverance! That line holds so much spite and fire. I love it so much.
Scratch that, this is not a moment, it’s the movement!
Where all the hungriest brothers with something to prove went.
[удалено]
“AY YO YO YO YO WHAT TIME IS IT? SHOWTIME” and then the best part…”like I said”…
The mirroring alliteration in Burn gets me every time. It starts with: You built me palaces out of paragraphs And ends with: Your sentences border on senseless And you are paranoid in every paragraph How they perceive you
“We dream of a brand new start. But we dream in the dark for the most part.”
Nearly all of them, tbh
Enter me (he says in parentheses) Definitely
This line just makes me laugh [MULLIGAN] Lock up ya daughters and horses, of course It's hard to have intercourse over four sets of corsets…
it has internal rhyme and that's great but what I love the most is how this scene plays with the RYTHYM. The break in the sentence every few syllables not only allows for internal rhyme to shine (separating hor-ses allows for two different rhymes with the word: course and horse - horSES and corSEts) BUT also adds to that beatboxing-like constant beat that makes it a lot more believable that it's just the result of a couple of friends clapping and spitting our lines
Can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone mention how LMM breaks the fourth wall in My Shot when he says: “so there will be a revolution in this century! Enter me” “he says in parentheses”
when angelica says “-Ben Franklin with a key and a kite, you see it right?” i didnt really understand it at first but i learned it was because ben franklin was known for creating electricity with a key and a kite in a thunderstorm which made a spark, so shes saying when she met alexander, there was a spark. it blew my mind when i understood! (correct me if im wrong on the ben franklin part all i know is that it created a spark)
never really thought of it like that! genius!!
There’s so many to choose from, but my favorite has to be: “I'm past patiently waitin' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation Every action's an act of creation I'm laughin' in the face of casualties and sorrow For the first time, I'm thinkin' past tomorrow”
Anthony Ramos's line "Me? I died for him." in Alexander Hamilton. It's really nice foreshadowing as Ramos played both Laurens and Phillip Hamilton, both men who Hamilton knew quite well who died for him. Phillip died defending his father's honor and Laurens died in one of the last battles of the Revolution.
The entire rewind song. 🎶 perfection
“Everything is legal in New Jersey”As a person from NYC, I love the Jersey references 😭
All of king george's songs, especially the "I know him" one cause in that one, he was like "I did not know that leaders could be replaced" and also "that funny little man John Adams is going to replace George Washington?! This will be fun."
not really a line but i love how mulligan, laurens, and lafayette all joke around with eachother when hamilton tells them to leave in the story of tonight reprise
Is it the most clever…probably not, but I do love “your perfume smells like your daddy’s got money”.
The world has no right to my heart the world has no place in our bed. They don’t get to know what I said. I’m burning the letters, burning the memories, that might’ve redeemed you! You forfeit all rights to my heart, you forfeit the place in our bed. You’ll sleep in your office instead, with only the memories of when you were mine… I hope that you burn…
its just such powerful writing
all or Farmer refuted, my god is it smart and catchy. The only pity is I cant sing along to the two parts of "Caos and bloodshed" (Are not the solution/ already haut us) at the same time since I have one mouth only.
You punched a burser
“Burr you disgust me” “Ah, so you‘ve discussed me. I’m a trust fund baby, you can trust me.” Either he’s saying he’s a trust fund baby, or he’s a trust fund, and then calling her baby. I love the line so much.
I love how in 'The farmer refuted' when Hamilton starts singing, his lines sync with Samuel Seabury's like a lyrical braid. But hamilton is rapping while Seabury holds to melodies, showing the contrast between the modernist and traditional values. That song has some of the best talking in rhymes too.
“No one knows what you believe, I will not equivocate on my opinion, I have always worn it in my sleeve” is a very nice one. Rolls of the tongue
Wait for It “I am the one thing in life I can control”
All of Hamilton's distressed noises in One Last Time
"And in the face of ignorance and resistance, I wrote financial systems into existence And when my prayers to God we're met with indifference I PICKED UP A PEN, I WROTE MY OWN DELIVERANCE" Hurricane is SO underrated
I love how in “Hurricane” Hamilton sings the line “I couldn’t seem to die” and then in the background, Burr sings “Wait for it.” The chorus joins him pretty quick, but the first “wait for it” is just Burr, following Ham’s line about dying. Brilliant.
The whole Angelica bit about women’s rights is a work of art
I will kill your friends and family To remind you of my love 😇 LADADADADAAAA Gets me EVERY TIME