A rhythm is "a literary device that demonstrates a long and short pattern through stressed and unstressed syllables" (QUOTE). To create a rhythm in his song, Billy Joel uses end rhyme, internal rhyme, close rhyme, and rhyme scheme. The first element of rhyme used by Billy Joel is the end rhyme. End rhyme is when the last syllables of a verse rhyme to make the song flow better (QUOTE). Use end rhyme when repeating words at the end of a line with similar sounds. For example, burning rhymes with spinning in the lines “it was always burning… since the world turns” (QUOTE). The second element used by Billy Joel is internal rhyme, which is when two or more words in the same line rhyme (QUOTE). Internal rhyme can be shown by Billy Joel in the line “Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray”. In this verse Day rhymes with Ray. Furthermore, Billy Joel also uses rhyme in his song. A close rhyme is defined as a rhyme in which the words share the sound of the vowel or that of the consonant, but not both (QUOTE). An example of a rhyme in the song is "Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvin Presley, Disneyland". In this verse Peter Pan rhymes with Disneyland. Both words sound similar, but they are not completely the same. Billy Joel uses a rhyme scheme, which means he uses a rhyme scheme (QUOTE). This can be demonstrated when Joel repeats "fire...burning...turning...fire...it...it". Repeats the end of rhymes with a