Many 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.

And then... there are these.

If 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]].

Tends to overlap with a LeastRhymableWord, as a way of getting around it (without "chilver" or "doorhinge").

Please note that the word has to be ''completed'' for this to work. Otherwise it's an abbreviation, a CurseCutShort, or a SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion.

This 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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!!Examples
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[[folder: Films -- Animated ]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'', Ratigan's VillainSong "The World's Greatest Criminal Mind" includes this line:
-->An even grimmer
-->Plan has been simmer-
-->-ing in my great criminal brain!
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', the song "Deliver Us" includes the following line:
-->Help us now,
-->in this dark hou-
-->-r
* 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:
-->I am your only friend.
-->You are my one defend-
-->-er.
** Later in "Out There," we have this triplet:
-->Out there, sitting in the sun,
-->Give me one day
-->Out there, all I ask is one,
-->To hold forever
-->Out there, where they all live un-
-->-aware...
** And then still in the same song, there's:
-->Out there they'll revile you as a monster
-->Out there they will hate and scorn and jeer
-->Why invite their calumny and conster-
-->nation? Stay in here
** The song "The Bells of Notre Dame" includes another:
-->Dark was the night when our tale was begun
-->On the docks near Notre Dame
-->Four frightened gypsies slid silently un-
-->der the docks near Notre Dame
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[[folder: Films -- Live-Action ]]
* "Happy Working Song" from ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has these lines:
-->Still, as long as I am here
-->I guess a new exper-
-->Ience could be worth trying...
-->Hey! Keep drying!

* 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.
* ''Film/RachelAndTheStranger'': One of the songs sung by Jim, a woodsman and amateur folk singer.
-->Greying beard and long her tresses\\
Knowing not what happiness is
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[[folder: Literature]]
* ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'': From the Mock Turtle's poem, "Turtle Soup":
-->Who would not give all else for two p-\\
ennyworth only of Beautiful Soup?
* 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.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The ''Series/{{Schmigadoon}}'' number "The Worst Brats In Town":
-->'''Miss Codwell:''' If by chance you're searchin'\\
For an urchin\\
I got your '''merchan'''dise right here
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[[folder: Meta]]
* Daniel F. Wallace's {{Limerick}} about [[LeastRhymableWord rhyming with "orange"]].
-->''When mired in a problem's confusion,\\
heed not to the boundary illusion.\\
So when rhyming with orange,\\
one has to be more inge-\\
nious to find a solution.''
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[[folder: Music]]
* Music/TomLehrer:
**
--->Eating an orange\\
While making love\\
Makes for bizarre enj--\\
oyment thereof.
*** (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''.)
** The opening to Lehrer's song "We'll All Go Together When We Go":
--->When you attend a funeral\\
It is sad to think that sooner or l--\\
ater those you love will do the same for you...\\
And you may have thought it tragic\\
Not to mention other adjec--\\
tives to think of all the weeping they will do...
** The opening to Lehrer's song "Smut"
--->Smut!\\
Give me smut and nothing but!\\
A dirty novel I can't shut,\\
If it's uncut,\\
And unsubt--\\
tle.
** "Bright College Days" does this bilingually:
--->Turn on the spigot,\\
Pour the beer and swig it,\\
And ''gaudeamus igit--\\
ur''.
* "The Way You Look Tonight" (originally from the film ''SwingTime'', now a jazz standard):
-->Oh, but you're lovely,\\
With your smile so warm\\
And your cheeks so soft,\\
There is nothing for m-\\
e but to love you,\\
And the way you look tonight.
* Arlo Guthrie's "Motorcycle Song" (allegedly written while falling off a cliff after trying to play an acoustic guitar while riding a motorcycle):
-->I don't want a pickle\\
Just want to ride on my motor-sickle\\
And I don't want a tickle\\
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motor-sickle
-->And I don't want to die\\
Just want to ride on my motorcy... cle.
-->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.
* From the Music/CapitolSteps song "The Hardest Rhyme" (to the tune of "The Longest Time"):
-->We can't rhyme Yeltsin\\
We'll have to pull our belts in\\
Do something else in-\\
stead of finding rhymes
* Music/GloriaEstefan's "Get On Your Feet":
--> I think it's true\\
That we've all been through\\
Some nasty weather\\
Let's understand\\
That we're here to han-\\
dle things together
* Music/AlanJackson's "Like Red on a Rose" has one:
-->And I love you like only little children love pennies
-->And I love you 'cause I know that I can't do any-
-->thing wrong
* Music/TheDecemberists' "The Legionnaire's Lament":
-->Medicating in the sun\\
Pinched doses of laudanum\\
Longing for the old fecund-\\
-ity of my homeland.
* Music/BobDylan's "Hurricane":
-->We wanna put his ass in stir
-->We wanna pin this triple mur-
-->-der on him
* 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:
-->...and went off to Vienna and Berlin,
-->where he met Hummel and Paganin-
-->-i the great violin virtuoso.
** And:
-->She used to smoke cigars,
-->and would habitually wear trous-
-->-ers, collar, tie and crew cut hair.
* PeterSchickele presented a song based on the name "Mindy", which included the following break:
-->suffer from a vitamin de-
-->ficiency...
* The Starland Vocal Band's "Afternoon Delight"
-->Rubbin' sticks and stones together makes the sparks ingite
-->and the thought of rubbin' you is getting so excit-
-->ing
* "I Will" by Jimmy Wayne:
-->What can I do? I can't make you stay here
-->But if you should choose to go your own way, where-
--> -ever you're going, whenever you turn
-->Remember this moment, remember these words
* "Follow Your Arrow" by Music/KaceyMusgraves combines this with a LastSecondWordSwap:
-->If you save yourself for marriage, you're a bore
-->If you don't save yourself for marriage, you're a hor[[note]]"whore"[[/note]]-
-->-rible person
* Music/KatyPerry's "Chained To The Rhythm" splits the word "zombie" in two to get an extra rhyme out of it:
-->Turn it up, it's your favorite song
-->Dance, dance, dance to the distortion
-->turn it up, keep it on repeat
-->Stumbling around like a wasted zom-
-->bie
-->Yeah, we think we're free...
* Plain White T’s “Rhythm Of Love”:
-->When the moon is low
-->We can dance in slow mo-
-->tion
* Runrig's "Scandinavia".
-->Here we stand
-->In Scand-
-->-inavia.
* Music/ReelBigFish has "Somebody Hates Me"
-->Did you mis-
-->-understand something that I did, or
-->was it one
-->of my jokes that you didn't get
* Music/DJShadow, "Rocket Fuel"
-->Aced all quizzes, A-plussed the final
-->Vocals we align' we move it all simul-
-->-taneously over joints, we rock
* Series/BigTimeRush's "Love Me Love Me"
-->Can't stop, wont stop the party rock
-->You got that feel of you're lips, sweet, like Betty Crock-
-->-er, so call a doct-
-->-or, 'Cause someone needs to take your temperature, you're getting hot-
-->-ter
* Rodgers and Hart's "Manhattan":
-->Summer journeys to Niag'ra\\
And to other places aggra-\\
Vate all our cares\\
We'll save our fares!
* Music/DanBull does this in his "Minecraft Nether Zombie Pigman Rap":
-->''Have you ever been aghast at a ghast as it blasts\\
Burning gas at your ass that could shatter a glass\\
So attack!\\
And when the thing disappears,\\
It can ac-\\
tually bring you to tears!''
* Music/{{Eminem}}:
** "Who Knew?"
--->How many retards’ll listen to me?\\
And run up in the school shooting when they’re pissed at a teach-\\
er, her, him, is it you, is it them?\\
"Wasn’t me — [[TheNewRockAndRoll Slim Shady said to do it again!]]"\\
Damn! How much damage can you do with a pen?
** 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.
--->But I kept rhymin' and stepped right in the next cypher,\\
Best believe somebody's payin' the Pied Piper,\\
All the pain inside amplified by the,\\
fact that I can't get by with my nine-to,\\
five...
** "Rap God" has another broken-up phrase to force the rhyme:
--->To meet Run–D.M.C., induct them\\
Into the motherfuckin' Rock an'...\\
Roll Hall of Fame...
** On "Evil Twin":
--->Oh, LMFAO, no way, Jo-\\
-se Baez couldn't beat this rap—O.J., no
** "Doomsday Pt. 2" contains a bizarre midword homophone:
--->Plan a funeral\\
Imma have to go\\
Plan a few neurol--\\
--ogical exams...
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[[folder: Radio ]]
* 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:
-->Everybody knows ain't nothing rhymes with orange\\
Doesn't matter how much imagination or ing-\\
enuity you use, even words that are foreign j-\\
ust better let it go, ain't nothing rhymes with orange
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[[folder: Theater ]]
* "In A Little While" from ''Theatre/OnceUponAMattress'' does this twice:
-->In a little while, just a little while,\\
You and I will be one, two, three, four.\\
In a little while, I will see your smile\\
On the face of my son. To be for-\\
Ever hand in glove\\
Is the way I have it planned[...]
::
-->My time is at a premium\\
For soon the world will see me a m-\\
aternal bride-to-be
* ''Theatre/ByeByeBirdie'''s "Put On a Happy Face":
-->Wipe off that gloomy mask of tragedy\\
It's not your style\\
You'll look so good that you'll be glad ya de-\\
-cided to smile
* From ''{{Theatre/Wicked}}'':
** "A Sentimental Man":
-->And helping you with your ascent al-\\
-lows me to feel so parental
** "Popular":
-->Don't be offended by my frank analysis\\
Think of it as personality dialysis\\
Now that I've chosen to become a pal, a sis-\\
-ter and adviser\\
There's nobody wiser
** Also in "Popular":
-->There's nothing that can stop you\\
From becoming popu-\\
-lar.
** Still "Popular":
-->You're gonna grin and bear it!\\
Your newfound popularit-\\
-y!
** In both of the latter two "Popular" cases, the ends of the words ''also'' rhyme with a different nearby line.
** Frequently in "Defying Gravity":
-->It's time to try / Kiss me goodbye / Just you and I / I'm flying high\\
defy-\\
-ing gravity.
** "Thank Goodness"
-->Then with a jealous squeal\\
The Wicked Witch burst from conceal-\\
-ment where she had been lurking surreptitially
* "Ladies In Their Sensitivities" from ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'':
-->When a girl's emergent\\
Probably it's urgent\\
You defer to her gent-\\
-ility, my Lord
* ''Theatre/{{Pippin}}'':
** "Magic to Do":
--->Journey, journey to a spot ex-\\
citing, mystic and exotic[...]\\
Intrigue, plots to bring disaster\\
Humor handled by a master\\
Romance, sex presented pastor-al-ly
** "War is a Science":
--->And if all the ploys we pick to rea-\\
-lly work to bring to pass occur\\
We won't have just a victory\\
We'll have ourselves a massacre
* "How I Saved Roosevelt" from ''{{Theatre/Assassins}}'' contains a mid-''letter'' rhyme, which when written down looks sort of like:
-->We'd have been left\\
Bereft\\
Of FD\\
R
* "Superstar" from ''Theatre/JesusChristSuperstar'':
-->Did you mean to die like that? Was that a mistake, or \\
Did you know your messy death would be a record break\\
-er?
* "I Miss The Mountains" from ''Theatre/NextToNormal'':
-->All these blank\\
and tranq-\\
-uil years\\
Seems they've dried up all my tears
* ''Theatre/ALittleNightMusic'':
** "Liaisons" completes a rhyme and a song by having Mme. Armfeldt fall asleep in the middle of a word:
--->In a world where the kings are employers,\\
Where the amateur prevails and delicacy fails to pay,\\
In a world where the princes are lawyers,\\
What can anyone expect, except to recollect liai...
** Carl-Magnus's verse of "A Weekend In The Country" rhymes "item" with "might am(use you)."
** "Night Waltz I (The Sun Won't Set)":
--->Perpetual sunset\\
Is rather an unset-\\
-tling thing.
* "It's Hot Up Here" from ''Theatre/SundayInTheParkWithGeorge'':
-->The outer show\\
Of bliss up here\\
Is disappear-\\
-ing dot by dot
* ''Theatre/{{Follies}}'':
** "Love Will See Us Through":
--->'''Young Buddy''': I've some traits, I warn you,\\
To which you'll have objections.\\
'''Young Sally''': I, too, have a cornu-\\
-copia of imperfections.
** "Ah, But Underneath":
--->As changeable as a chameleon,\\
With all that entails,\\
But nobody saw what was really un-\\
-derneath all the veils.
* ''Theatre/SeventeenSeventySix'' features several examples, including "Sit Down, John":
-->It's ninety degrees,\\
have mercy, John, please!\\
It's hot as hell,\\
in Philadel-\\
-phia!"
* 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.
** One example from "Alexander Hamilton":
-->There would've been nothin' left to do for someone less astute\\
He would've been dead or destitute without a cent of restitut-\\
-ion!
** Another from "My Shot":
-->I am the A-L-E-X-A-N-D-\\
E-R! We are! Meant to be!\\
A colony that runs independently!
** And then one from "Satisfied":
-->I asked about his family, did you see his answ-\\
-er? His hands started fidgeting, he looked askance:\\
He's penniless, he's flying by the seat of his pants!
** And from "Yorktown (The World Turned Upside Down)":
-->How did we know that this plan would work?\\
We had a spy on the inside. That's right: Herc-\\
ules Mulligan!
* ''Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'': The Act 2 version of "Notes" provides these lines:
--> The man could not be deafer,
--> So please prefer-
--> -ably one who plays in tune!
* "Where Are The Men?" from ''Theatre/AnythingGoes'':
-->Where are the men?\\
Is this a nunnery?\\
Where are the men?\\
We want some fun. A re-\\
-fusal to find some will leave us completely floored...
* ''Theatre/TheCountOfMonteCristo'': "The Story"
-->'''Villefort''': Let me sign and then initial\\
'''Danglars''': It's the truth if it's official-\\
-ly the story.
* ''Theatre/{{Oliver}}'': In the opening number "Food, Glorious Food":
--> There's not a crust, not a crumb can we find, can we beg, can we borrow, or ''cadge''\\
But there's nothing to stop us from getting a thrill\\
When we all close our eyes and i-''mag''-ine...
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[[folder: Web Original ]]
* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' has this during the fight between the Wright Brothers and the [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario Brothers]].
-->'''Luigi''': ''HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW?''\\
'''Mario''': Spit flames out our mouth\\
'''Both''': Like our name was Bow... SER!
* 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.
-->His sense of life and death and good and e-
-->vil seemed extremely rudimentary
* ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' in "Brand New Day":
-->This appeared
-->as a mor-
-->-al dilemma
-->'cause at first
-->it was weird
-->though I swore
-->to elimi-
-->-nate the worst
-->of the plague
-->that devou-
-->-ered humanity
-->it's true
-->I was vague
-->on the how
-->so how can it be
-->that you...
* ''WebVideo/VlogBrothers'' member Hank Green's song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kXkWXSXRA Strange Charm]]":
-->Quarks have electric charge, color charge, mass, and spin\\
And having color charge means they exist solely in-\\
side of other kinds of particles and cannot exist alone...
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[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' quotes a playground rhyme that combines this with some {{Inverted|Trope}} CurseCutShort. Snippet:
-->Miss Lucy had a steam boat\\
The steamboat had a bell,\\
Miss Lucy went to heaven and the\\
Steamboat went to...Hell-\\
o operator
** ''South Park'''s version, however, is much naughtier than the original playground song. Specifically, mention is made of [[CountryMatters "cont-aminated water."]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', listing off [[https://youtu.be/Vvy0wRLD5s8US all the Presidents the US had had at the time]]:
-->Ted Roosevelt charged up San Juan Hill
-->Then President Taft he got the bill
-->In 1913 Woodrow Wil-
-->son takes us into World War One.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' has a couple in [[AWildRapperAppears the rap section]] of the Season 2 song "Pressure":
-->We could be so influential,\\
our actions consequential!\\
Without any recredentials,\\
I can tell you confidential-\\
-ly that you and me might have the quality\\
to achieve a high degree of notoriety!\\
And get our names on the marquee of high society\\
And I know that now we seem like idi-\\
-ots, but in the nitty-gritty,\\
it's so fortunate we're witty\\
it's gonna (Yo, yo!) make us giddy\\
when we're someday sitting pretty!
* ''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".
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