History Main / RhymingWithItself

* Some renditions of "Jingle Bell Rock" invoke this by singing "Mix and mingle in the jinglin' feet" instead of "beat."

-->I've got the mind of [[InstandAwesomeJustAddNinja a ninja]]

* Madonna's "Vogue":

* Coldplay's "Everything's Not Lost" rhymes "lost" with "lost."

-->I'll make you shake your ass like Les MaCan

-->You've got the elephant feet like Les McCan

** This troper will give them a point for at least rhyming the interior "bad/sad" and "better/let her" and "heart/start", which makes up for it.

* In most of EdwardLear's early limericks, the first and last lines are the same, with this as the inevitable consequence. [[http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/03/there-was-old-man-with-beard-edward.html One]] rhymes "beard" with "beard".
* In ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Team Homer," the bowling team has taken to chanting motivational chants at each other during games:
--> All but Homer: Come on, Homer! Come on, Homer! / Pretend this is baseball and hit us a homer!
--> ''(Homer gets a strike; they cheer)''
--> Homer: By the way, guys: rhyming "Homer" with "homer"? ''(kisses fingers)''
** Another ''Simpsons'' example, from a man in love with Marge:
--> Lady, when you go away
--> It makes me wanna die
--> And not dye like your hair is dyed
--> But die like Lady Di
--> And not die like her name is Di
--> But die like when she died
--> But, lady, just like Lady Di
--> You're my princess tonight
--> But don't die

* [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] comments on this during Marzipan's song "[[http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Sensitive_To_Bees Sensitive to Bees]]," where she rhymes "cute" with "cute" and "cute," after rhyming it with [[PainfulRhyme "fruit"]].
--->'''Strong Bad:''' "Cute", ''"cute"'' and "cute." [[SarcasmMode You're the poet laureate of-]]
** Crackotage generally RhymesOnADime, but in [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/cheatcommandos4.html Commandos in the Classroom]]:
--->'''Crackotage:''' Movie night is my favorite night. I think it is my favorite night. Hee hee hoo hoo!
--->'''Silent Rip:''' Are you even trying anymore?
---> And in an EasterEgg...
--->'''Crackotage:''' [[LampshadeHanging I think my rhymes are truly broke!]] Broke, broke, broke, broke, broke, broke, broke!

* In ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' song "Notes/Prima Donna", theater-manager Firmin rhymes "wrote" with "wrote," but quickly corrects himself.
-->'''Raoul:''' ''Isn't this the letter you wrote?''
-->'''Firmin:''' ''And what is it that we're meant to have wrote? (Spoken)'' Ah... written.
* The intro theme to ''She-Ra: the Secret of the Sword.'' TheNostalgiaChick was not impressed.

* EdgarAllanPoe sometimes did this to deliberate effect, e.g.:
-->Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore \\
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!

* The theme to joke [[ImAMarvelAndImADC "Rorschach and Wolverine"]] rhymes "psychopath" with itself:
--> Rorschach and Wolverine, a nut and a fiend. He's a psychopath, he's also a psychopath. I don't think the premise really works.
* In an episode of ''{{Arthur}}'', Binky writes a poem that goes,
-->People think I can't write a poem.\\
But they are so wrong, I can write a poem!\\
I wrote THIS one, I wrote THIS poem,\\
And I gave it the title "Binky's Poem."\\
So shut up!\\
The end.
** "''That's'' not a poem! [[LampshadeHanging You rhymed 'poem' with 'poem' four times!]]"
** [[TrueArtSticksItToTheMan "It was great. Yay, Binky!"]]

* Parodied in ''CloneHigh'':
** Gandhi: "Man, you wanted a kiss, but instead you got bupkis. *Gasp* 'Kiss'...bupkis.' I just totally rhymed! I rhymed! Wait, 'rhymed,' 'rhymed'! I did it again!" Cue Gandhi believing that he's a star rapper called G-Spot.
** And indeed, later in the episode, he records a hit song with these lyrics:
--->G-Spot rocks the G-Spot!\\
G-Spot rocks the G-Spot!\\
What's my name? (G-Spot!)\\
What do I rhyme? (the G-Spot!)

* BrianPosehn in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiVMrWMHko Metal By Numbers]]:
-->We're coming to the end of the first verse
-->Then comes the breakdown, a pretty chorus and then the second verse
-->I know I just rhymed "verse" with "verse"
-->That's because [[HeavyMeta I'm so metal]], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]], where's your fucking purse?
* Oscar Hammerstein II rhymes "forever" with "forever" in his song "Edelweiss" from ''TheSoundofMusic''.

* The actual last piece of original material in the seventy-three-book [[DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Eighth Doctor Adventures]] is a song with a certain amount of this. [[MissedMomentOfAwesome Way to be, Fitz.]] All the rhyming lines rhyme with each other, and two lines end with the word "true", two with "do", two with "you", one with "too" and one with "to". Also, there's an "oh so true" in there.

* In an episode of ''StrokerAndHoop'', Hoop tells a rapper that "technically, 'club' does not rhyme with 'club'."

* In ''RedDwarf'', Lister explains that there aren't many things that rhyme with Kochanski's name, so his song uses "underpantski" twice.

* {{Xzibit}} does this on ''Multiply'':

* Though written, Pokiehl in ''LegendOfMana'' tries writing a poem about Watts, but is clearly struggling to come up with anything to say about him. The first three lines all end with the word "helm", and the last doesn't even try to rhyme.

* In the theme song to the animated film ''JimmyNeutron Boy Genius'', BowlingForSoup rhyme "time" with "time" (in the chorus lyrics "We've got to save the Earth and get to school on time/So many things to do and not much time!") three separate times.

-->'''Mac''': You just rhymed around with around.
-->'''Bloo''': (sarcastically) You just rhymed around with around.

* In most of Edward Lear's early limericks, the first and last lines are the same, with this as the inevitable consequence. [[http://wonderingminstrels.blogspot.com/2000/03/there-was-old-man-with-beard-edward.html One]] rhymes "beard" with "beard".

** Another Simpson's example, from a man in love with Marge:

* [[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]] comments on this during Marzipan's song "[[http://hrwiki.org/wiki/Sensitive_To_Bees Sensitive to Bees]]," where she rhymes "cute" with "cute" and "cute", after rhyming it with [[PainfulRhyme "fruit"]].
--->'''Strong Bad:''' "Cute", ''"cute"'' and "cute". [[SarcasmMode You're the poet laureate of-]]

---> And in an easter egg...

* TheBeatles rhymed "better" with "better" in ''Hey Jude''.
-->Hey Jude, don't make it bad/Take a sad song and make it better/Remember to let her into your heart/and you can start to make it better.
** This troper will give them a point for at least rhyming the interior "bad-sad" and "better-let her" and "heart-start", which makes up for it.

* The Doors rhymed "fire" with itself on ''"Light My Fire."''
* Black Sabbath rhymed "masses" with itself on ''"War Pigs"''
** Although they did use two different meanings for "masses"
* ''Coheed and Cambria'' does this with "21:13", the hidden song on their second album, when they rhyme "all" with "all".

-->What's wrong with the world Mama?
-->People livin' like they ain't got no Mamas
* ''"Pass the Mic"'' by the Beastie Boys:

* "Breakfast In America" by Supertramp, which is a great song, still contains a line that rhymes "girlfriend" with "girlfriend".

** Avril Lavigne used the girlfriend/girlfriend rhyme too.
* While on the topic of breakfast, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something rhymes "The world has come between us" and "Our life has come between us" possibly to avoid having to talk about [[http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/2006/01/breaking_update.html something that rhymes with "between us" and starts with P]].
* Played with, but cleverly averted, in Randy Travis' ''"Better Class of Losers"'', which rhymes "sweet" and "suite", a very rare example of using homophones as rhymes.

* In ''ThePhantomOfTheOpera'' song "Notes/Prima Donna", theater-manager Firmin rhymes wrote with wrote, but quickly corrects himself.

* Train's "Meet Virginia" does this ''four times'', with "beautiful", "president", and "unusual" in the verses, and "life" in the chorus. (Technically, they also rhyme "queen" with itself in one refrain, but because of the rhyme scheme it's not as noticeable.)
* Limp Bizkit's "Rollin" rhymes "here" with "here", although there's at least an internal rhyme involved ("I know you be lovin' this shit right here/ L-I-M-P biz'''kit''' is right here").
* Coldplay's "Everythings Not Lost" rhymes "lost" with "lost".
* EdgarAllanPoe sometimes did this to deliberate effect. E.g.:
-->Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore — \\

* "[[LongTitle It Was an Absolutely, Finger-Lickin', Grits and Chicken, Country Music Love Song]]" by Bomshel uses Song/along/song/song as a rhyme in the chorus. This is a rare two-for-one, as it uses both a PainfulRhyme (song/along) and a RhymingWithItself based on the same word.

* "If You've Got the Money" by Lefty Frizzell, later covered by Willie Nelson rhymes "time" with itself in the chorus ''and'' second verse.

* "I Wonder" by Kellie Pickler rhymes "Like mothers do" with itself in the second verse.

* Taylor Swift's "You Belong with Me" rhymes "than that" and "like that".
* "The Seashores of Old Mexico", first recorded by Merle Haggard, gets it out of the way in the first line, which rhymes "in mind" with itself.
* Finger Eleven's ''One Thing'' rhymes "thing" with "thing" twice, "time" with "time" once, and then goes on a Rhyming Rampage when it begins to rhyme "know" with "know" no less than nine times. This might make ''One Thing'' the ultimate example of this trope.
* Flirted with in "The Bride" by Trick Pony, which rhymes "pretty thing" and "anything".
* {{Abba}}'s "The Winner Takes It All" rhymes "plain" with "complain", which may not ''technically'' be a RhymingWithItself, but it has the same feel to it.

** "''That's'' not a poem! [[LampshadeHanging You rhymed poem with poem four times!]]"

* WeirdAlYankovic naturally parodied this in "Trapped In The Drive-Thru", a parody of R. Kelly's "TrappedInTheCloset", in which he rhymes "Door" with itself several times, and later rhymes "Drive Thru" with itself for ''eight lines in a row''.
* Parodied in CloneHigh:
** Gandhi: "Man, you wanted a kiss, but instead you got butt-kiss. * Gasp* 'Kiss...Butt-kiss.' I just totally rhymed! I rhymed! Wait, 'rhymed, rhymed! I did it again!" Cue Gandhi believing that he's a star rapper called G-Spot.

* Used for humorous effect in an entire verse of Flight Of The Conchords' "Hurt Feelings":

* Morrissey's "[[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/your-band-sucks/worst-rock-stars.php lowest point]]", from the catchy-weird "The More You Ignore Me The Closer I Get":

* Kid Rock's "All Summer Long":

* Brian Posehn in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chiVMrWMHko Metal By Numbers]]:

-->I know I just rhymed verse with verse

* Oscar Hammerstein II rhymes "forever" with "forever" in his song "Edelweiss" from TheSoundofMusic.

* GreenDay's song Longview rhymes "motivation" with itself: "I got no motivation/Where is my motivation?"
* The {{Nirvana}} song "You know you're right": "No thought was put into this/I always knew it would come to this".
* "How to Save a Life" by The Fray does this anywhere from two to ''five different times'' depending on what counts: two straight examples, one instance of the whole line being repeated when the same line in the previous verse was two distinct lines, one that could be charitably considered a feminine rhyme ("you know best" with "do know best") and one coupling of "things" with "everything". For perspective, this accounts for nearly half of all the rhyming couplets in the song.
* [[TheWhiteStripes The Hardest Button To Button]] has this [[SarcasmMode masterful rhyme]]:

* In an episode of StrokerAndHoop, Hoop tells a rapper that "technically, 'club' does not rhyme with 'club'."
* Part of the refrain of "Between The Lines" by Stone Temple Pilots: "You always were my favorite drug/ Even when we used to take drugs"

* Rapper Juelz Santana abuses the living hell out of this trope. Here's an example:

* Xhibit does this on ''Multiply'':

* LadyGaga, sort of. In "Alejandro", she "rhymes" "in her pocket" with "en su bolsillo"... which means "in her pocket".

* Counting Crows' "Mr. Jones":

* In Beyoncé's verse on LadyGaga's "Telephone", she rhymes faster, with faster, and then with ''faster''. [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/tis/tpsr/22745-ep-04-telephone Todd is not amused]]. (At about 7:30 in.)
* Now this looks like a job for me

* The Magnetic Fields pull off a sneaky one in "I Don't Believe You":

* Rick Ross in a lot of his songs, but especially in "(Everyday I'm) Hustlin":

--->In the M-I-A-YO them niggaz rich off that YAYO
--->Steady slangin' YAYO, my Chevy bangin' Yayo
* In the theme song to the animated film ''JimmyNeutron Boy Genius'', Bowling For Soup rhyme "time" with "time" (in the chorus lyrics "We've got to save the Earth and get to school on time/So many things to do and not much time!") three separate times.

** Stupify repeatedly rhymes "get it" with "credit" to "let it" and eventually "live with it".

* Not quite the same word, but Rush's "Limelight" rhyming "tact" with "intact" still sounds a bit awkward.

* Green Day's song Longview rhymes "motivation" with itself: "I got no motivation/Where is my motivation?"
* The Nirvana song "You know you're right": "No thought was put into this/I always knew it would come to this".

* The Black Eyed Peas rhyme a word with its plural in ''"Where Is The Love"'':

* [[ImAMarvelAndImADC Rorschach and Deadpool]]'s theme rhymes "psychopath" with itself.
** It wasn't Rorschach and Deadpools theme, I was the theme to joke "Rorschach and Wolverine"

** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TrueArtSticksItToTheMan "It was great. Yay, Binky!"]]

** Ghandi: "Man, you wanted a kiss, but instead you got butt-kiss. * Gasp* 'Kiss...Butt-kiss.' I just totally rhymed! I rhymed! Wait, 'rhymed, rhymed! I did it again!" Cue Ghandi believing that he's a star rapper called G-Spot.

-->And it's all just a bunch of matter

-->I wish I was beautiful
* In Beyoncé's cringeworthy verse on LadyGaga's Telephone, she rhymes faster, with faster, and then with ''faster''. [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/teamt/tis/tpsr/22745-ep-04-telephone Todd is not amused]]. (At about 7:30 in.)

--> We bought a lot of things to keep you warm and '''dry'''
--> A funny old crib on which the paint won't '''dry'''

* The intro theme to ''She-Ra: the Secret of the Sword.'' [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Nostalgia Chick]] was not impressed.