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* In Theodore Isaac Rubin's story ''Lisa and David'', the two title characters are mentally-ill teenagers in a treatment program who develop a relationship with each other. Lisa, who may be autistic, speaks in rhymes most of the time. This causes David to say to her at one point, "Lisa, Lisa, why must we rhyme? It's so hard to do, and it takes so much time!"
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* In Theodore Isaac Rubin's story ''Lisa and David'', ''Literature/LisaAndDavid'', the two title characters are mentally-ill teenagers in a treatment program who develop a relationship with each other. Lisa, who may be autistic, speaks in rhymes most of the time. This causes David to say to her at one point, "Lisa, Lisa, why must we rhyme? It's so hard to do, and it takes so much time!"time!"
* In ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'', the guinea pigs Enrico and Caruso often speak in rhyme or improvise poems.
* In ''Literature/TheGoldenHamsterSaga'', the guinea pigs Enrico and Caruso often speak in rhyme or improvise poems.
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* In ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', Tom Bombadil speaks in rhyming verse so often that the index of poems in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' doesn't bother to list his verses individually.
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* In ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', ''Literature/TheFellowshipOfTheRing'', Tom Bombadil speaks in rhyming verse so often that the index of poems in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' doesn't bother to list his verses individually.
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* There's a scene in the first ''Literature/KingdomKeepers'' book where [[TheHero Finn's]] thoughts suddenly manifest themselves as such. Amanda tells him it's a sign of witches.
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* Onimi from the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' speaks constantly in rhymes specifically to annoy whoever he's talking to (and thereby amuse [[EvilOverlord his boss]]). As most of Onimi's dialogue, however, is in the Yuuzhan Vong language, [[TranslationConvention he's probably really using some other form of poetic meter that is simply rendered as rhymes in English]]. [[spoiler: When he reveals his [[BigBad true]] [[OmnicidalManiac nature]], he stops doing this]].
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* Onimi from the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' speaks constantly in rhymes specifically to annoy whoever he's talking to (and thereby amuse [[EvilOverlord his boss]]). As most of Onimi's dialogue, however, is in the Yuuzhan Vong language, [[TranslationConvention he's probably really using some other form of poetic meter that is simply rendered as rhymes in English]]. [[spoiler: When he reveals his [[BigBad true]] [[OmnicidalManiac nature]], he stops doing this]].
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* LaBerge, one of the announcers of ''The Quillan Games'' (''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'' book 8), likes to speak in this whenever he's on air.
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* LaBerge, [=LaBerge=], one of the announcers of ''The Quillan Games'' (''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'' book 8), likes to speak in this whenever he's on air.
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* Creator/DrSeuss' books are mostly well known for rhymes. In fact, they are so well-known to him, that they can commonly be found in other related media, including film and television.
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* Creator/DrSeuss' books are mostly well known for rhymes. In fact, they are so well-known to him, that they can commonly be found in other related media, including film and television. The most notable out of all these books is ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam'', which provides the subpage's quote.
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I do not like them with a fox.\\
I do not like them in a house.\\
I do not like them with a mouse.\\
I do not like them here or there.\\
I do not like them anywhere.\\
[[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam I do not like green eggs and ham.]]\\
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.''
-->--The main character, ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam''
I do not like them with a fox.\\
I do not like them in a house.\\
I do not like them with a mouse.\\
I do not like them here or there.\\
I do not like them anywhere.\\
[[IDoNotLikeGreenEggsAndHam I do not like green eggs and ham.]]\\
I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.''
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* In Theodore Isaac Rubin's story ''Lisa and David'', the two title characters are mentally-ill teenagers in a treatment program who develop a relationship with each other. Lisa, who may be autistic, speaks in rhymes most of the time. This causes David to say to her at one point, "Lisa, Lisa, why must we rhyme? It's so hard to do, and it takes so much time!"
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* In Theodore Isaac Rubin's story ''Lisa and David'', the two title characters are mentally-ill teenagers in a treatment program who develop a relationship with each other. Lisa, who may be autistic, speaks in rhymes most of the time. This causes David to say to her at one point, "Lisa, Lisa, why must we rhyme? It's so hard to do, and it takes so much time!"
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* Creator/DrSeuss' books are mostly well known for rhymes. In fact, they are so well-known to him, that they can commonly be found in other related media, including film and television.
* The game version of this is apparently how Marco from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' bonds with his father when they're alone.
* This was Vanessa Pike's oh-so-crazy quirk in ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' books.
* The denizens of the Land of Clever People from ''Literature/BookOfBrownies'' have a rule where their citizens and visitors must ''speak in rhyme, all the time'' as evidence of their "cleverness". Failure to rhyme a sentence, and the offender will be punished by [[SeriousBusiness public spanking]].
* 'The Prof' from the ''Literature/{{Burke}}'' novels by Andrew Vachss.
-->"Prof is short for prophet, my man. I never fall because I see it all!"
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'': Gurgi often likes to speak with "rhymings and chimings".
* Natalia Line from ''Literature/DinkyHockerShootsSmack!'' always speaks in rhyme when she's nervous.
* The defining trait of the Society of the Rhyming Dove, a "guild of eccentric poets", in ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'', is that they constantly speak in rhyme. Indeed, they seem to perceive other people's dialogue in rhyme too, or else to have an irresistible compulsion to render it as such even if asked to write it down exactly as said. There is much [[AmbiguousSituation in-universe speculation]] on whether they're just very good at improvising poetry, or if there's a genuine supernatural element to what they do.
* ''Literature/{{Heimskringla}}'':
** ''Ynglinga saga'' says about Odin (described as a powerful and sorcerous king of the ancient past) that, among many other extraordinary and supernatural talents, "everything he said was in rhyme, like the way what is now called poetry is composed".
** ''Saga of St. Olaf'' says about Olaf's court poet Sigvatr Thordarson that he was so good at composing verse that "he spoke it extempore, just as if he was saying something in the ordinary way."
* The demon that gives the wizard Ebenezum his allergy to magic in ''[[Literature/TheExploitsOfEbenezum A Malady of Magicks]]'' speaks in this manner, although his rhymes are pretty bad. A good thing, as if he could rhyme well (or had the self-control to ignore comments to the contrary) he'd be unbeatable; each rhyme he gets out acts as a combination generic counterspell and powerful self-buff, and they ''stack''. In context he's a lot more frightening, up until the end of the third book [[spoiler: when the collected wizards manage to spread the allergy to magic to him, forcing him to only declaim in (rather decent) blank verse]].
-->"Alas, you humans are out of luck,\\
For now you face the demon Guxx!"
* While the main character of ''Inside Out'' by Terry Trueman doesn't rhyme his speech, the [[TheSchizophreniaConspiracy voices in his head]] speak almost entirely in gibberish rhymes. They only speak in a straightforward fashion when they're giving him instructions.
* There's a scene in the first ''Literature/KingdomKeepers'' book where [[TheHero Finn's]] thoughts suddenly manifest themselves as such. Amanda tells him it's a sign of witches.
* In Scott Corbett's ''The Limerick Trick'' a formula produced by a mysterious boys' chemistry set with nearly-illegible labels made several of the main characters start talking like this.
* In ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', Tom Bombadil speaks in rhyming verse so often that the index of poems in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' doesn't bother to list his verses individually.
* The ''Literature/{{Madeline}}'' books are all written in rhyme, including character dialogue. The narrators of [[WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}} the cartoon]] and [[Film/{{Madeline}} the movie]] also speak in rhyme, sometimes by directly quoting the books.
* In Robert Arthur's "Mr. Milton's Gift" one Homer Milton enters a [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday mysterious curio shop]] in search of an anniversary present for his wife and, after making an offhand comment about the "gift of making money," is given it - along with the "gift of verse" as a bonus, because of his name. This results in exchanges like the following attempted explanation to his lawyer when he discovers that the "gift of making money" is more literal than he expected:
-->"I tried to buy my wife a present, something she'd consider pleasant. I didn't want her to be vexed, so I wound up getting hexed. A gift this Clarence fellow sold me, but the thing he never told me was I'd be a counterfeiter-"
* Uyulala from ''Literature/TheNeverEndingStory''. In fact, she ''can't'' speak without rhyming, and also cannot hear people if they do not talk to her in verse. (Atreyu manages to get a knack for it rather quickly.)
* Onimi from the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' speaks constantly in rhymes specifically to annoy whoever he's talking to (and thereby amuse [[EvilOverlord his boss]]). As most of Onimi's dialogue, however, is in the Yuuzhan Vong language, [[TranslationConvention he's probably really using some other form of poetic meter that is simply rendered as rhymes in English]]. [[spoiler: When he reveals his [[BigBad true]] [[OmnicidalManiac nature]], he stops doing this]].
* LaBerge, one of the announcers of ''The Quillan Games'' (''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'' book 8), likes to speak in this whenever he's on air.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': "Curse me, eh, I'll make you pay/ I don't want to rhyme all day!"
* ''Franchise/{{Pumuckl}}'', the kobold protagonist of a German children's series. [[CatchPhrase "Oh, das reimt sich! Und was sich reimt, ist gut, haha!" (Oh, that rhymes! And anything that rhymes is good, haha!)]]
* Sir Harry the Muse, an Owl from [[Literature/{{Redwall}} ''Mattimeo'']], who always talks in rhyme except when conducting business.
* Tertius Fume does this in ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' to the point of being called out for this by Merrin Meredith.
* In both the book and movie versions of ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'', Thimbletack the brownie rhymes at almost all times.
* In the ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'', there's a race called the Lonat who speak in rhyme, and it's ''explicitly'' made TranslationConvention. Skilled poetic speaking akin to Shakespeare's use of iambic pentameter is mutilated into nursery rhyme style verse by the UniversalTranslator doing the best it can to keep up. We don't know what the Lonat trader Square-Deal Djonreel is hearing when the [=DS9=] crew talk to him, but he is pleased when they respond to him in rhyme just for fun. Kira tries to get them to cut it out, but [[GotMeDoingIt accidentally ends her order with a word that rhymes with what O'Brien had just said]].
* In Creator/DavidBrin's ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series the [[SapientCetaceans dolphin]] language Trinary is expressed in (often rather [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]]) limericks. Though later generations of "fin" can speak Anglic and usually don't bother rhyming when they do so.
* In ''The Viscount of Adrilankha'' Ibronka and Röaana do this as a game.
-->-Is it something living?\\
-The answer no I am giving, and it is not the sky.\\
-I have to wonder why. Can I hold it in my hand?\\
-You can hold it while you stand. ''(And so on.)''
* In ''Literature/TheWiseMansFear'', two of the characters have an entire unscripted rhyming conversation, and in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'', Kvothe does a BadassBoast like this. It's actually good poetry. JustifiedTrope, He's a musician. Further justified due to use of the TranslationConvention.
* The children's book ''The Wonderful O'' is full of this, since the premise is that the villains ban one rather vital letter of the English language. So, naturally, they must demonstrate the difficulties this creates in poetry and verse.
* In ''Literature/TheScarletSails'', the sailor Letika often speaks in rhymes, to the delight of the rest of the crew.
-->'''Letika''' (in the 1961 film's English subtitles): With a string and a pole of wood I have made myself a whip / And now I tie a hook on it and, whistling, make it flip.
* ''Literature/The13Clocks'' slips in and out of rhyme, but manages to make it work even at the most dramatic moments:
-->"I have no tears," said Hagga. "Once I wept when ships were overdue, or brooks ran dry, or tangerines were overripe, or sheep got something in their eye. I weep no more," said Hagga. Her eyes were dry as desert and her mouth seemed made of stone. "I have turned a thousand persons gemless from my door. Come in," she said. "I weep no more."
* Many fae type creatures in fairytales and literature speak in rhyme, including, but not limited to:
** The faeries in ''Literature/HeroesOfMiddlecenter'' (who explode if they fail to rhyme)
** Puck and some of the other lesser Fairies in ''Literature/AMidsummerNightsDream'' speak entirely or almost entirely in rhyme, while Titania and Oberon mostly don't bother. This may or may not be intentional.
* ''Literature/TheSecretLivesOfPrincesses'': Princess Paige is an expert in rhyme, and speaks only in verse.
* In ''Literature/TheLastDogs'', the main characters meet a [[SwarmOfRats huge gang of rats]] in the subway, led by a rat named Longtooth who always speaks in rhyme. But it's eventually subverted, for when he dismisses his rats, Longtooth admits that he's run out of rhymes and speaks normally to the dogs.
* The children's book ''Literature/NuddyNed'' and its sequel ''Nuddy Ned's Christmas'' are both rhyming stories.
* From ''Literature/WolfmanConfidential'': Black of heart, the goblins three/As muscle, serve a mighty sidhe/Murder, theft, even extortion/They ensure the Gobfather gets his portion.
* ''Literature/TheWonderfulSchool'': All of Miss Tillie O'Toole's lessons are in riddles and rhymes according to the book.
* In Theodore Isaac Rubin's story ''Lisa and David'', the two title characters are mentally-ill teenagers in a treatment program who develop a relationship with each other. Lisa, who may be autistic, speaks in rhymes most of the time. This causes David to say to her at one point, "Lisa, Lisa, why must we rhyme? It's so hard to do, and it takes so much time!"
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* Creator/DrSeuss' books are mostly well known for rhymes. In fact, they are so well-known to him, that they can commonly be found in other related media, including film and television.
* The game version of this is apparently how Marco from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' bonds with his father when they're alone.
* This was Vanessa Pike's oh-so-crazy quirk in ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' books.
* The denizens of the Land of Clever People from ''Literature/BookOfBrownies'' have a rule where their citizens and visitors must ''speak in rhyme, all the time'' as evidence of their "cleverness". Failure to rhyme a sentence, and the offender will be punished by [[SeriousBusiness public spanking]].
* 'The Prof' from the ''Literature/{{Burke}}'' novels by Andrew Vachss.
-->"Prof is short for prophet, my man. I never fall because I see it all!"
* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfPrydain'': Gurgi often likes to speak with "rhymings and chimings".
* Natalia Line from ''Literature/DinkyHockerShootsSmack!'' always speaks in rhyme when she's nervous.
* The defining trait of the Society of the Rhyming Dove, a "guild of eccentric poets", in ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'', is that they constantly speak in rhyme. Indeed, they seem to perceive other people's dialogue in rhyme too, or else to have an irresistible compulsion to render it as such even if asked to write it down exactly as said. There is much [[AmbiguousSituation in-universe speculation]] on whether they're just very good at improvising poetry, or if there's a genuine supernatural element to what they do.
* ''Literature/{{Heimskringla}}'':
** ''Ynglinga saga'' says about Odin (described as a powerful and sorcerous king of the ancient past) that, among many other extraordinary and supernatural talents, "everything he said was in rhyme, like the way what is now called poetry is composed".
** ''Saga of St. Olaf'' says about Olaf's court poet Sigvatr Thordarson that he was so good at composing verse that "he spoke it extempore, just as if he was saying something in the ordinary way."
* The demon that gives the wizard Ebenezum his allergy to magic in ''[[Literature/TheExploitsOfEbenezum A Malady of Magicks]]'' speaks in this manner, although his rhymes are pretty bad. A good thing, as if he could rhyme well (or had the self-control to ignore comments to the contrary) he'd be unbeatable; each rhyme he gets out acts as a combination generic counterspell and powerful self-buff, and they ''stack''. In context he's a lot more frightening, up until the end of the third book [[spoiler: when the collected wizards manage to spread the allergy to magic to him, forcing him to only declaim in (rather decent) blank verse]].
-->"Alas, you humans are out of luck,\\
For now you face the demon Guxx!"
* While the main character of ''Inside Out'' by Terry Trueman doesn't rhyme his speech, the [[TheSchizophreniaConspiracy voices in his head]] speak almost entirely in gibberish rhymes. They only speak in a straightforward fashion when they're giving him instructions.
* There's a scene in the first ''Literature/KingdomKeepers'' book where [[TheHero Finn's]] thoughts suddenly manifest themselves as such. Amanda tells him it's a sign of witches.
* In Scott Corbett's ''The Limerick Trick'' a formula produced by a mysterious boys' chemistry set with nearly-illegible labels made several of the main characters start talking like this.
* In ''The Fellowship of the Ring'', Tom Bombadil speaks in rhyming verse so often that the index of poems in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' doesn't bother to list his verses individually.
* The ''Literature/{{Madeline}}'' books are all written in rhyme, including character dialogue. The narrators of [[WesternAnimation/{{Madeline}} the cartoon]] and [[Film/{{Madeline}} the movie]] also speak in rhyme, sometimes by directly quoting the books.
* In Robert Arthur's "Mr. Milton's Gift" one Homer Milton enters a [[TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday mysterious curio shop]] in search of an anniversary present for his wife and, after making an offhand comment about the "gift of making money," is given it - along with the "gift of verse" as a bonus, because of his name. This results in exchanges like the following attempted explanation to his lawyer when he discovers that the "gift of making money" is more literal than he expected:
-->"I tried to buy my wife a present, something she'd consider pleasant. I didn't want her to be vexed, so I wound up getting hexed. A gift this Clarence fellow sold me, but the thing he never told me was I'd be a counterfeiter-"
* Uyulala from ''Literature/TheNeverEndingStory''. In fact, she ''can't'' speak without rhyming, and also cannot hear people if they do not talk to her in verse. (Atreyu manages to get a knack for it rather quickly.)
* Onimi from the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' speaks constantly in rhymes specifically to annoy whoever he's talking to (and thereby amuse [[EvilOverlord his boss]]). As most of Onimi's dialogue, however, is in the Yuuzhan Vong language, [[TranslationConvention he's probably really using some other form of poetic meter that is simply rendered as rhymes in English]]. [[spoiler: When he reveals his [[BigBad true]] [[OmnicidalManiac nature]], he stops doing this]].
* LaBerge, one of the announcers of ''The Quillan Games'' (''Literature/ThePendragonAdventure'' book 8), likes to speak in this whenever he's on air.
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': "Curse me, eh, I'll make you pay/ I don't want to rhyme all day!"
* ''Franchise/{{Pumuckl}}'', the kobold protagonist of a German children's series. [[CatchPhrase "Oh, das reimt sich! Und was sich reimt, ist gut, haha!" (Oh, that rhymes! And anything that rhymes is good, haha!)]]
* Sir Harry the Muse, an Owl from [[Literature/{{Redwall}} ''Mattimeo'']], who always talks in rhyme except when conducting business.
* Tertius Fume does this in ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' to the point of being called out for this by Merrin Meredith.
* In both the book and movie versions of ''Literature/TheSpiderwickChronicles'', Thimbletack the brownie rhymes at almost all times.
* In the ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'', there's a race called the Lonat who speak in rhyme, and it's ''explicitly'' made TranslationConvention. Skilled poetic speaking akin to Shakespeare's use of iambic pentameter is mutilated into nursery rhyme style verse by the UniversalTranslator doing the best it can to keep up. We don't know what the Lonat trader Square-Deal Djonreel is hearing when the [=DS9=] crew talk to him, but he is pleased when they respond to him in rhyme just for fun. Kira tries to get them to cut it out, but [[GotMeDoingIt accidentally ends her order with a word that rhymes with what O'Brien had just said]].
* In Creator/DavidBrin's ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series the [[SapientCetaceans dolphin]] language Trinary is expressed in (often rather [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]]) limericks. Though later generations of "fin" can speak Anglic and usually don't bother rhyming when they do so.
* In ''The Viscount of Adrilankha'' Ibronka and Röaana do this as a game.
-->-Is it something living?\\
-The answer no I am giving, and it is not the sky.\\
-I have to wonder why. Can I hold it in my hand?\\
-You can hold it while you stand. ''(And so on.)''
* In ''Literature/TheWiseMansFear'', two of the characters have an entire unscripted rhyming conversation, and in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheWind'', Kvothe does a BadassBoast like this. It's actually good poetry. JustifiedTrope, He's a musician. Further justified due to use of the TranslationConvention.
* The children's book ''The Wonderful O'' is full of this, since the premise is that the villains ban one rather vital letter of the English language. So, naturally, they must demonstrate the difficulties this creates in poetry and verse.
* In ''Literature/TheScarletSails'', the sailor Letika often speaks in rhymes, to the delight of the rest of the crew.
-->'''Letika''' (in the 1961 film's English subtitles): With a string and a pole of wood I have made myself a whip / And now I tie a hook on it and, whistling, make it flip.
* ''Literature/The13Clocks'' slips in and out of rhyme, but manages to make it work even at the most dramatic moments:
-->"I have no tears," said Hagga. "Once I wept when ships were overdue, or brooks ran dry, or tangerines were overripe, or sheep got something in their eye. I weep no more," said Hagga. Her eyes were dry as desert and her mouth seemed made of stone. "I have turned a thousand persons gemless from my door. Come in," she said. "I weep no more."
* Many fae type creatures in fairytales and literature speak in rhyme, including, but not limited to:
** The faeries in ''Literature/HeroesOfMiddlecenter'' (who explode if they fail to rhyme)
** Puck and some of the other lesser Fairies in ''Literature/AMidsummerNightsDream'' speak entirely or almost entirely in rhyme, while Titania and Oberon mostly don't bother. This may or may not be intentional.
* ''Literature/TheSecretLivesOfPrincesses'': Princess Paige is an expert in rhyme, and speaks only in verse.
* In ''Literature/TheLastDogs'', the main characters meet a [[SwarmOfRats huge gang of rats]] in the subway, led by a rat named Longtooth who always speaks in rhyme. But it's eventually subverted, for when he dismisses his rats, Longtooth admits that he's run out of rhymes and speaks normally to the dogs.
* The children's book ''Literature/NuddyNed'' and its sequel ''Nuddy Ned's Christmas'' are both rhyming stories.
* From ''Literature/WolfmanConfidential'': Black of heart, the goblins three/As muscle, serve a mighty sidhe/Murder, theft, even extortion/They ensure the Gobfather gets his portion.
* ''Literature/TheWonderfulSchool'': All of Miss Tillie O'Toole's lessons are in riddles and rhymes according to the book.
* In Theodore Isaac Rubin's story ''Lisa and David'', the two title characters are mentally-ill teenagers in a treatment program who develop a relationship with each other. Lisa, who may be autistic, speaks in rhymes most of the time. This causes David to say to her at one point, "Lisa, Lisa, why must we rhyme? It's so hard to do, and it takes so much time!"
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