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1	[[quoteright:350:[[Webcomic/LifeSketch https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rhyme_subverted.jpg]]]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[https://www.deviantart.com/kitty-the-waterbaby/art/LS-33-Silly-Songs-With-Duck-186419961 ...Shih Tzu?]]]]
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4	->'''Para:''' We are villains who like to rhyme...\
5	'''Dox:''' In fact, we do it all the time. \
6	'''Para:''' You may think it's rather crass...\
7	'''Dox:''' But you can stick your cards right up your nose. \
8	'''Para:''' ...You were supposed to say "ass", brother. I thought we rehearsed this.
9	-->-- ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries''
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11	So... you're listening to a song, (maybe deciding to sing along) or are on one of those [[PlanetOfHats crazy planets]] (with a population of Janets?) where [[GratuitousIambicPentameter everyone speaks in verse]] (without needing to rehearse). A rhyming couplet is set up, (and you watch your hopes get up) but rather than using a rhyme, (being [[RhymesOnADime accomplished on a dime]]) the speaker takes it in a different, non-euphonic [[BrickJoke direction,]] (but maybe not in need of course correction) either by speaking a different word, (could be one you've never heard) having it bleeped out, (lest you be creeped out) or cutting off an offending section. (Such as the outcome of a [[SelfDemonstratingArticle voting.]])
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13	This is most often used for comedy: typically, the rhyme set up and subverted was clearly supposed to be a profanity. (If the replacement word begins the same way as the averted word, this amounts to a deliberate CurseCutShort.) It's one of the myriad gimmicks used for GettingCrapPastTheRadar, and when used this way is known as a "Miss Susie". after one of the most famous examples. Sometimes in this case the cut-off word will appear in a different context as a MidwordRhyme ("The steamboat went to '''hell'''/-o operator."). Doing this is the only way to get the worse {{Bawdy Song}}s on American network television — though of course the trope is much older than that: it's used in an Elizabethan broadside ballad about seducing a maiden, thus making it at least OlderThanSteam. That said, the trope can be used for comedy without implying profanity, just by making the way the rhyme is going totally obvious and then not going there.
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15	Known as a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Rhyme mind rhyme]] according to [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]].
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17	A subtrope of LastSecondWordSwap. Compare with PainfulRhyme, RhymingWithItself and MidwordRhyme. Not to be confused with LameRhymeDodge. See also TwistedEchoCut.
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19	%% Remember, this trope is for cases when you expect a particular word (because of the
20	%% rhyme scheme) and you get a different word (which might or might not rhyme). It
21	%% isn't this trope if you just expected some rhyming word and there isn't a rhyme
22	%% (for example, if a song has a complicated rhyme scheme, or part of it just doesn't
23	%% rhyme at all). If you can't say "I was expecting this word, and they didn't say it",
24	%% it doesn't fit this trope.
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26	!!Example subpages:
27	[[index]]
28	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/ComicBooks
29	* [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/AnimatedFilms Films — Animated]]
30	* [[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
31	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/{{Literature}}
32	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/LiveActionTV
33	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/{{Music}}
34	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/PuppetShows
35	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/{{Theatre}}
36	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/VideoGames
37	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/{{Webcomics}}
38	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/WebOriginal
39	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/WesternAnimation
40	* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion/OtherMedia
41	[[/index]]
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