Basic Trope: It seems like there will be a rhyme, but there isn't one.
- Straight: Alice starts a limerick, "There once was a creature from Venus. No one knew of its species and genus. When they tried to find out, one man had no doubt, and said, 'Easy— the clue is the—!'—" only for her teacher, Bob, to interrupt her.
- Exaggerated: Alice writes a whole sonnet that sets up rhymes but doesn't rhyme.
- Downplayed: Alice finishes her limerick with a near-rhyme, like "peanuts".
- Justified: Bob had figured out what Alice was going to say and didn't want his students saying rude limericks in class.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: After class, Alice now has the opportunity to say the entire limerick.
- Double Subverted: The limerick ends in "Easy, the clue is the... markings."
- Parodied: ???
- Zigzagged:
- Alice keeps trying to say her limerick, but people keep interrupting.
- Alice writes a poem that only rhymes sometimes.
- Averted: Alice says the whole rhyme, and "genus" is indeed rhymed with "penis".
- Enforced:
- The executives forbade the writers from using anatomical words, so the writers have fun with it.
- If the subverted rhyme is a swear word or obscene word, this could be a way of Getting Crap Past the Radar or adding Demographically Inappropriate Humor.
- Lampshaded: "I want to know the clue!"
- Invoked: Bob realises Alice's limerick will be rude the minute he hears "Venus", so he strategically interrupts just before the last word.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice decides not to recite her limerick until there's nobody who'll interrupt.
- Discussed: "My classmate recited a limerick, and the teacher interrupted her before she could say the last word, but I think I know what it was going to be, since the previous rhymes were 'Venus' and 'genus'."
- Conversed: "The censors won't let them say that, but the implied rhyme spells it out for us."
- Implied: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
- Played for Laughs: The non-rhyme is played for subversive comedy.
- Played for Drama: Alice speaks in Rhymes on a Dime, so when she doesn't rhyme, it's a bad sign.
- Played for Horror: Alice is killed by a werewolf in the middle of reciting a poem.
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