At the end of season 3 episode 4 of “The Righteous Gemstones”, Jesse Gemstone, played by Danny McBride, speaks a powerful 18 couplets stanza monologue poem about trust to his son, Pontius, played by Kelton DuMont.
This monologue poem is written in internal rhymes like some of the poems from my previous blog posts are. But usually in internal rhyme poems we oscillate between ONE line of rhymes and ONE line with NO rhymes. But in this Righteous Gemstones poem we get an oscillation between TWO lines (couplets) with NO rhymes at all and TWO lines (couplets) where each line has it’s own internal rhymes.
As I’ve told you in previous blog posts, the more you internalize the rhyme scheme, the more intellectual and sophisticated the poem will sound. The oscillation between rhymes and NO rhymes adds even more sophistication and color like jazz musicians who jump on and off beat to add some extra color to their melodies.
Another thing I noticed is that Jesse Gemstone likes to add -ing to the end of his words. The fact that this poem is done in couplets gives it a musical feel.
If I were to perform this monologue poem, I would emphasize the musicality of the oscillating couplets and the appending of words ending in -ing or -s, or -ed.
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James Ivan 