the words into sound units called phonemes. This process is called “acoustic encoding,” and it’s the first step in deciphering any word. With rhyme, the comely sound structure creates a kind of blueprint, a pattern, that seems to make the message itself more sensible. Rhyming “purifies the basics” of our highly complicated world, Harvard psycholinguist Dr. Steven Pinker once said. It brings order to the informational chaos out there. Needless to say,
