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1Many poems follow some sort of rhyme scheme--AABBA, ABAB etc. This is generally an end rhyme; the rhyming words come at the end of each successive line. Generally the rhyme ends up even, and each line is a complete phrase, if not a complete sentence.
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3And then... there are these.
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5If you write out the poem or lyrics in lines, they ''will'' rhyme... so long as you cut words between two lines. [[SerialEscalation Or three, but that would get silly]].
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7Tends to overlap with a LeastRhymableWord, as a way of getting around it (without "chilver" or "doorhinge").
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9Please note that the word has to be ''completed'' for this to work. Otherwise it's an abbreviation, a CurseCutShort, or a SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion.
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11This is the extreme form of what is technically known as "enjambment," spreading a phrase or sentence over two lines instead of fitting each thought to its own line.
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13!!Examples
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16[[folder: Films -- Animated ]]
17* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan's VillainSong "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind" includes this line:
18-->An even grimmer
19-->Plan has been simmer-
20-->-ing in my great criminal brain!
21* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', the song "Deliver Us" includes the following line:
22-->Help us now,
23-->in this dark hou-
24-->-r
25* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'', "Out There" includes as least ''three'' of these. At the start, it has this back and forth between Frollo and Quasimodo:
26-->I am your only friend.
27-->You are my one defend-
28-->-er.
29** Later in "Out There," we have this triplet:
30-->Out there, sitting in the sun,
31-->Give me one day
32-->Out there, all I ask is one,
33-->To hold forever
34-->Out there, where they all live un-
35-->-aware...
36** And then still in the same song, there's:
37-->Out there they'll revile you as a monster
38-->Out there they will hate and scorn and jeer
39-->Why invite their calumny and conster-
40-->nation? Stay in here
41** The song "The Bells of Notre Dame" includes another:
42-->Dark was the night when our tale was begun
43-->On the docks near Notre Dame
44-->Four frightened gypsies slid silently un-
45-->der the docks near Notre Dame
46[[/folder]]
47
48[[folder: Films -- Live-Action ]]
49* "Happy Working Song" from ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has these lines:
50-->Still, as long as I am here
51-->I guess a new exper-
52-->Ience could be worth trying...
53-->Hey! Keep drying!
54
55* The song "Marley and Marley" from ''Film/TheMuppetChristmasCarol'' rhymes "greed" with "needy", "black" with "shackles", and in a cut verse, "part" with "heartless". Since this happens once a verse, it was probably done for artistic purposes.
56* ''Film/RachelAndTheStranger'': One of the songs sung by Jim, a woodsman and amateur folk singer.
57-->Greying beard and long her tresses\
58Knowing not what happiness is
59[[/folder]]
60
61[[folder: Literature]]
62* ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'': From the Mock Turtle's poem, "Turtle Soup":
63-->Who would not give all else for two p-\
64ennyworth only of Beautiful Soup?
65* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/RejectionSlips": "Kind", the third letter, wants to rhyme 'frightfully' with 'delightful', so it sends part of the first word into the same line as the second word.
66[[/folder]]
67
68[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
69* The ''Series/{{Schmigadoon}}'' number "The Worst Brats In Town":
70-->'''Miss Codwell:''' If by chance you're searchin'\
71For an urchin\
72I got your '''merchan'''dise right here
73[[/folder]]
74
75[[folder: Meta]]
76* Daniel F. Wallace's {{Limerick}} about [[LeastRhymableWord rhyming with "orange"]].
77-->''When mired in a problem's confusion,\
78heed not to the boundary illusion.\
79So when rhyming with orange,\
80one has to be more inge-\
81nious to find a solution.''
82[[/folder]]
83
84[[folder: Music]]
85* Music/TomLehrer:
86**
87--->Eating an orange\
88While making love\
89Makes for bizarre enj--\
90oyment thereof.
91*** (This rhyme works only because Lehrer [[AccentDepundent sings it in a Boston accent]], where the first syllable of ''orange'' rhymes with the last syllable of ''bizarre''.)
92** The opening to Lehrer's song "We'll All Go Together When We Go":
93--->When you attend a funeral\
94It is sad to think that sooner or l--\
95ater those you love will do the same for you...\
96And you may have thought it tragic\
97Not to mention other adjec--\
98tives to think of all the weeping they will do...
99** The opening to Lehrer's song "Smut"
100--->Smut!\
101Give me smut and nothing but!\
102A dirty novel I can't shut,\
103If it's uncut,\
104And unsubt--\
105tle.
106** "Bright College Days" does this bilingually:
107--->Turn on the spigot,\
108Pour the beer and swig it,\
109And ''gaudeamus igit--\
110ur''.
111* "The Way You Look Tonight" (originally from the film ''SwingTime'', now a jazz standard):
112-->Oh, but you're lovely,\
113With your smile so warm\
114And your cheeks so soft,\
115There is nothing for m-\
116e but to love you,\
117And the way you look tonight.
118* Arlo Guthrie's "Motorcycle Song" (allegedly written while falling off a cliff after trying to play an acoustic guitar while riding a motorcycle):
119-->I don't want a pickle\
120Just want to ride on my motor-sickle\
121And I don't want a tickle\
122'Cause I'd rather ride on my motor-sickle
123-->And I don't want to die\
124Just want to ride on my motorcy... cle.
125-->I knew that it wasn't the best song l ever wrote, but I didn't have time to change it. I was comin' down mighty fast.
126* From the Music/CapitolSteps song "The Hardest Rhyme" (to the tune of "The Longest Time"):
127-->We can't rhyme Yeltsin\
128We'll have to pull our belts in\
129Do something else in-\
130stead of finding rhymes
131* Music/AlanJackson's "Like Red on a Rose" has one:
132-->And I love you like only little children love pennies
133-->And I love you 'cause I know that I can't do any-
134-->thing wrong
135* Music/TheDecemberists' "The Legionnaire's Lament":
136-->Medicating in the sun\
137Pinched doses of laudanum\
138Longing for the old fecund-\
139-ity of my homeland.
140* Music/BobDylan's "Hurricane":
141-->We wanna put his ass in stir
142-->We wanna pin this triple mur-
143-->-der on him
144* Comedian and musician Richard Stilgoe's 45-minute poem ''Music/WhoPaysThePiper'', which humorously outlines the history of music from Pan to the present day, contains a song outlining Chopin's life, set to the Minute Waltz, which contains several of these:
145-->...and went off to Vienna and Berlin,
146-->where he met Hummel and Paganin-
147-->-i the great violin virtuoso.
148** And:
149-->She used to smoke cigars,
150-->and would habitually wear trous-
151-->-ers, collar, tie and crew cut hair.
152* PeterSchickele presented a song based on the name "Mindy", which included the following break:
153-->suffer from a vitamin de-
154-->ficiency...
155* The Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight"
156-->Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
157-->and the thought of rubbin' you is getting so excit-
158-->ing
159* "I Will" by Jimmy Wayne:
160-->What can I do? I can't make you stay here
161-->But if you should choose to go your own way, where-
162--> -ever you're going, whenever you turn
163-->Remember this moment, remember these words
164* "Follow Your Arrow" by Music/KaceyMusgraves combines this with a LastSecondWordSwap:
165-->If you save yourself for marriage, you're a bore
166-->If you don't save yourself for marriage, you're a hor[[note]]"whore"[[/note]]-
167-->-rible person
168* Music/KatyPerry's "Chained To The Rhythm" splits the word "zombie" in two to get an extra rhyme out of it:
169-->Turn it up, it's your favorite song
170-->Dance, dance, dance to the distortion
171-->turn it up, keep it on repeat
172-->Stumbling around like a wasted zom-
173-->bie
174-->Yeah, we think we're free...
175* Plain White T’s “Rhythm Of Love”:
176-->When the moon is low
177-->We can dance in slow mo-
178-->tion
179* Runrig's "Scandinavia".
180-->Here we stand
181-->In Scand-
182-->-inavia.
183* Music/ReelBigFish has "Somebody Hates Me"
184-->Did you mis-
185-->-understand something that I did, or
186-->was it one
187-->of my jokes that you didn't get
188* Music/DJShadow, "Rocket Fuel"
189-->Aced all quizzes, A-plussed the final
190-->Vocals we align' we move it all simul-
191-->-taneously over joints, we rock
192* Series/BigTimeRush's "Love Me Love Me"
193-->Can't stop, wont stop the party rock
194-->You got that feel of you're lips, sweet, like Betty Crock-
195-->-er, so call a doct-
196-->-or, 'Cause someone needs to take your temperature, you're getting hot-
197-->-ter
198* Rodgers and Hart's "Manhattan":
199-->Summer journeys to Niag'ra\
200And to other places aggra-\
201Vate all our cares\
202We'll save our fares!
203* Music/DanBull does this in his "Minecraft Nether Zombie Pigman Rap":
204-->''Have you ever been aghast at a ghast as it blasts\
205Burning gas at your ass that could shatter a glass\
206So attack!\
207And when the thing disappears,\
208It can ac-\
209tually bring you to tears!''
210* Music/{{Eminem}}:
211** "Who Knew?"
212--->How many retards’ll listen to me?\
213And run up in the school shooting when they’re pissed at a teach-\
214er, her, him, is it you, is it them?\
215"Wasn’t me — [[TheNewRockAndRoll Slim Shady said to do it again!]]"\
216Damn! How much damage can you do with a pen?
217** Not ''strictly'' a midword rhyme, but "Lose Yourself" breaks up a common phrase to force the rhyme scheme - made very obvious by the pauses in the flow.
218--->But I kept rhymin' and stepped right in the next cypher,\
219Best believe somebody's payin' the Pied Piper,\
220All the pain inside amplified by the,\
221fact that I can't get by with my nine-to,\
222five...
223** "Rap God" has another broken-up phrase to force the rhyme:
224--->To meet Run–D.M.C., induct them\
225Into the motherfuckin' Rock an'...\
226Roll Hall of Fame...
227** On "Evil Twin":
228--->Oh, LMFAO, no way, Jo-\
229-se Baez couldn't beat this rap—O.J., no
230** "Doomsday Pt. 2" contains a bizarre midword homophone:
231--->Plan a funeral\
232Imma have to go\
233Plan a few neurol--\
234--ogical exams...
235[[/folder]]
236
237[[folder: Radio ]]
238* In the final episode of the first series of ''Music/MitchBenn's Crimes Against Music'', he and Richard Stilgoe are having a satirical song contest; when Stilgoe challenges Benn to continue the song "I went to the supermarket and there I bought an orange", Mitch melts. But he later comes back:
239-->Everybody knows ain't nothing rhymes with orange\
240Doesn't matter how much imagination or ing-\
241enuity you use, even words that are foreign j-\
242ust better let it go, ain't nothing rhymes with orange
243[[/folder]]
244
245[[folder: Theater ]]
246* "In A Little While" from ''Theatre/OnceUponAMattress'' does this twice:
247-->In a little while, just a little while,\
248You and I will be one, two, three, four.\
249In a little while, I will see your smile\
250On the face of my son. To be for-\
251Ever hand in glove\
252Is the way I have it planned[...]
253::
254-->My time is at a premium\
255For soon the world will see me a m-\
256aternal bride-to-be
257* ''Theatre/ByeByeBirdie'''s "Put On a Happy Face":
258-->Wipe off that gloomy mask of tragedy\
259It's not your style\
260You'll look so good that you'll be glad ya de-\
261-cided to smile
262* From ''{{Theatre/Wicked}}'':
263** "A Sentimental Man":
264-->And helping you with your ascent al-\
265-lows me to feel so parental
266** "Popular":
267-->Don't be offended by my frank analysis\
268Think of it as personality dialysis\
269Now that I've chosen to become a pal, a sis-\
270-ter and adviser\
271There's nobody wiser
272** Also in "Popular":
273-->There's nothing that can stop you\
274From becoming popu-\
275-lar.
276** Still "Popular":
277-->You're gonna grin and bear it!\
278Your newfound popularit-\
279-y!
280** In both of the latter two "Popular" cases, the ends of the words ''also'' rhyme with a different nearby line.
281** Frequently in "Defying Gravity":
282-->It's time to try / Kiss me goodbye / Just you and I / I'm flying high\
283defy-\
284-ing gravity.
285** "Thank Goodness"
286-->Then with a jealous squeal\
287The Wicked Witch burst from conceal-\
288-ment where she had been lurking surreptitially
289* "Ladies In Their Sensitivities" from ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'':
290-->When a girl's emergent\
291Probably it's urgent\
292You defer to her gent-\
293-ility, my Lord
294* ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'':
295** "Magic to Do":
296--->Journey, journey to a spot ex-\
297citing, mystic and exotic[...]\
298Intrigue, plots to bring disaster\
299Humor handled by a master\
300Romance, sex presented pastor-al-ly
301** "War is a Science":
302--->And if all the ploys we pick to rea-\
303-lly work to bring to pass occur\
304We won't have just a victory\
305We'll have ourselves a massacre
306* "How I Saved Roosevelt" from ''{{Theatre/Assassins}}'' contains a mid-''letter'' rhyme, which when written down looks sort of like:
307-->We'd have been left\
308Bereft\
309Of FD\
310R
311* "Superstar" from ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'':
312-->Did you mean to die like that? Was that a mistake, or \
313Did you know your messy death would be a record break\
314-er?
315* "I Miss The Mountains" from ''Theatre/NextToNormal'':
316-->All these blank\
317and tranq-\
318-uil years\
319Seems they've dried up all my tears
320* ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'':
321** "Liaisons" completes a rhyme and a song by having Mme. Armfeldt fall asleep in the middle of a word:
322--->In a world where the kings are employers,\
323Where the amateur prevails and delicacy fails to pay,\
324In a world where the princes are lawyers,\
325What can anyone expect, except to recollect liai...
326** Carl-Magnus's verse of "A Weekend In The Country" rhymes "item" with "might am(use you)."
327** "Night Waltz I (The Sun Won't Set)":
328--->Perpetual sunset\
329Is rather an unset-\
330-tling thing.
331* "It's Hot Up Here" from ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge'':
332-->The outer show\
333Of bliss up here\
334Is disappear-\
335-ing dot by dot
336* ''Theatre/{{Follies}}'':
337** "Love Will See Us Through":
338--->'''Young Buddy''': I've some traits, I warn you,\
339To which you'll have objections.\
340'''Young Sally''': I, too, have a cornu-\
341-copia of imperfections.
342** "Ah, But Underneath":
343--->As changeable as a chameleon,\
344With all that entails,\
345But nobody saw what was really un-\
346-derneath all the veils.
347* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' features several examples, including "Sit Down, John":
348-->It's ninety degrees,\
349have mercy, John, please!\
350It's hot as hell,\
351in Philadel-\
352-phia!"
353* Happens often in ''Theatre/{{Hamilton}}'', though it's usually not obvious because, as is common in rap, the structure tends to be pretty flexible and there are a lot of internal rhymes.
354** One example from "Alexander Hamilton":
355-->There would've been nothin' left to do for someone less astute\
356He would've been dead or destitute without a cent of restitut-\
357-ion!
358** Another from "My Shot":
359-->I am the A-L-E-X-A-N-D-\
360E-R! We are! Meant to be!\
361A colony that runs independently!
362** And then one from "Satisfied":
363-->I asked about his family, did you see his answ-\
364-er? His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance:\
365He's penniless, he's flying by the seat of his pants!
366** And from "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)":
367-->How did we know that this plan would work?\
368We had a spy on the inside. That's right: Herc-\
369ules Mulligan!
370* ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'': The Act 2 version of "Notes" provides these lines:
371--> The man could not be deafer,
372--> So please prefer-
373--> -ably one who plays in tune!
374* "Where Are The Men?" from ''Theatre/AnythingGoes'':
375-->Where are the men?\
376Is this a nunnery?\
377Where are the men?\
378We want some fun. A re-\
379-fusal to find some will leave us completely floored...
380* ''Theatre/TheCountOfMonteCristo'': "The Story"
381-->'''Villefort''': Let me sign and then initial\
382'''Danglars''': It's the truth if it's official-\
383-ly the story.
384* ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'': In the opening number "Food, Glorious Food":
385--> There's not a crust, not a crumb can we find, can we beg, can we borrow, or ''cadge''\
386But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrill\
387When we all close our eyes and i-''mag''-ine...
388[[/folder]]
389
390[[folder: Web Original ]]
391* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' has this during the fight between the Wright Brothers and the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Brothers]].
392-->'''Luigi''': ''HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW?''\
393'''Mario''': Spit flames out our mouth\
394'''Both''': Like our name was Bow... SER!
395* Goldentusk's WithLyrics version of the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' theme does this once; perhaps unnecessarily, since the running rhyme of the song is a long E sound.
396-->His sense of life and death and good and e-
397-->vil seemed extremely rudimentary
398* ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' in "Brand New Day":
399-->This appeared
400-->as a mor-
401-->-al dilemma
402-->'cause at first
403-->it was weird
404-->though I swore
405-->to elimi-
406-->-nate the worst
407-->of the plague
408-->that devou-
409-->-ered humanity
410-->it's true
411-->I was vague
412-->on the how
413-->so how can it be
414-->that you...
415* ''WebVideo/VlogBrothers'' member Hank Green's song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kXkWXSXRA Strange Charm]]":
416-->Quarks have electric charge, color charge, mass, and spin\
417And having color charge means they exist solely in-\
418side of other kinds of particles and cannot exist alone...
419[[/folder]]
420
421[[folder: Western Animation ]]
422* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' quotes a playground rhyme that combines this with some {{Inverted|Trope}} CurseCutShort. Snippet:
423-->Miss Lucy had a steam boat\
424The steamboat had a bell,\
425Miss Lucy went to heaven and the\
426Steamboat went to...Hell-\
427o operator
428** ''South Park'''s version, however, is much naughtier than the original playground song. Specifically, mention is made of [[CountryMatters "cont-aminated water."]]
429* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', listing off [[https://youtu.be/Vvy0wRLD5s8US all the Presidents the US had had at the time]]:
430-->Ted Roosevelt charged up San Juan Hill
431-->Then President Taft he got the bill
432-->In 1913 Woodrow Wil-
433-->son takes us into World War One.
434* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' has a couple in [[AWildRapperAppears the rap section]] of the Season 2 song "Pressure":
435-->We could be so influential,\
436our actions consequential!\
437Without any recredentials,\
438I can tell you confidential-\
439-ly that you and me might have the quality\
440to achieve a high degree of notoriety!\
441And get our names on the marquee of high society\
442And I know that now we seem like idi-\
443-ots, but in the nitty-gritty,\
444it's so fortunate we're witty\
445it's gonna (Yo, yo!) make us giddy\
446when we're someday sitting pretty!
447* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': "[[AntiChristmasSong Christmastime is Killing Us]]" from the episode "Road to the North Pole" features one in every verse but the last, rhyming "peal" and "zeal" with "feeling", "list" and "pissed" with "existence", "elf" and "shelf" with "selflessly", and "train" and "pain" with "draining".
448[[/folder]]

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