History Main / RhymingWithItself

Of course, this technique, called an '''Identity''' in English Major speak, can have a deliberate aural or meaningful effect in higher-level readings, as with any other thing the author can fit in there (a good example would be "Literature/TheRaven" by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe). Good rule of thumb, if the poet who uses this trope has a [[Platform/PulitzerPrize Pulitzer Prize in Poetry]] or a UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature, it's likely that it's intentional.

Of course, this technique, called an '''Identity''' in English Major speak, can have a deliberate aural or meaningful effect in higher-level readings, as with any other thing the author can fit in there (a good example would be "Literature/TheRaven" by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe). Good rule of thumb, if the poet who uses this trope has a [[UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize Pulitzer Prize in Poetry]] or a UsefulNotes/NobelPrizeInLiterature, it's likely that it's intentional.

* The ''Franchise/StarWars'' game for UsefulNotes/{{Kinect}} features [[SongParody parodies]] of many popular dance songs, including a recruitment song for the Empire to the tune of [[Music/VillagePeople "YMCA"]], which contains the line:

* "Pass the Mic" by the Music/BeastieBoys:

* [[Music/LinkinPark Mike Shinoda]] rhymes "today" with itself three times in "Papercut":
--> Why does it feel like night today?\\
Something in here's not right today.\\
Why am I so uptight today?\\

* Music/LimpBizkit's "Rollin'" rhymes "here" with "here"

* Music/{{Pitbull}}'s "Give Me Everything ([[{{Foreshadowing}} Tonight]])" might be the new champion, starting it off by rhyming (of all things) "[[Creator/EastmanKodak Kodak]]" with "[[StuckOnBandAidBrand Kodak]]" in... the ''exact'' same context:
-->"Me not working hard?\\

* Music/KanyeWest does this as a joke in "Slow Jamz", referring to Michael Jackson's varying pigmentation over his life.
-->"She got a light-skinned friend look like Music/MichaelJackson\\

--> This is bad, real bad, Music/MichaelJackson.
--> Now I'm mad, real mad, Joe Jackson!

** Dante only rhymed the word "Cristo" with "Cristo". Notable in that he had to do it only three times (in Paradiso Cantos XII, XIV, and XIX) due to the rhyming system of the Comedy (ABA BCB CDC ... YZY Z).

* Dante Alighieri did this intentionally in Literature/TheDivineComedy. To prevent any sense of blasphemy, he only rhymed the word "[[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ]]" with "Christ."[[note]]And mind you, it's much easier to find words that rhyme with "Christ" (well, "''Cristo''") in Italian than it is in English.[[/note]] Notable in that he had to do it three times do to the rhyming system of the Comedy (ABA CAC).

Note that this trope doesn't really apply to a repetitive chorus, a.k.a. LoopedLyrics, in which the same line is repeated over and over again.

* In the Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} parody rock opera ''The Baby is You'', Bro threatens to "show the power of 'Forbidden Rhyme', words that rhyme with themselves" during his monologue.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/45888574 Erika Writes a Poem]]'', [[Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure Erika]] rhymes her own name with itself. [[Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure Iona]] calls her on this, and points out that she had previously named her sister's name with her mother's, despite that "Momoka" rhymes better with "Erika" than "Sakura".

''Bother.)''
-->''(Now I haven't got a rhyme for "bother". Bother.)''
-->Those two "bother"s will have to rhyme with each other.
-->Buther.
* OlderThanPrint, as ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' has this pair of lines:
-->''The holy blisful martir for to seke''\\
''That hem hath holpen, whan that they were seke.''
* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'':
** Dante only rhymed the word "Cristo" with "Cristo". Notable in that he had to do it only three times (in Paradiso Cantos XII, XIV, and XIX) due to the rhyming system of the Comedy (ABA BCB CDC ... YZY Z).
** He also rhymed "volse" with "volse", though in the first case it means “turned” and in the second “wanted.”

Note that this trope doesn't really apply to a repetitive chorus, a.k.a LoopedLyrics, in which the same line is repeated over and over again.

Note that this trope doesn't really apply to a repetitive chorus, in which the same line is repeated over and over again.

->'''Binky:''' People think I can't write a poem,
->But they are so wrong, I CAN write a poem.
->I wrote this one, I wrote this poem,
->And I gave it the title "Binky's Poem".

-->We're coming to the end of the first verse
-->Then comes the breakdown, a pretty chorus and then the second verse

--> ...
-->'''Cheap Cheap The Cooking Chicken''':

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}:'' "The Good-Bye Song"
-->We're so sad we've no more time together\\

-->Sacramento, California; Oklahoma and its '''city'''\\

-->Baloney is our friendly friend\\

%%* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'': "E.G.G.M.A.N." does this in its second verse:
%%--> I'm plotting my schemes wherever I go, they're perfect in every way.\\
%%I love to destroy the blue one you know, he's an obstacle that always gets in my way.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic naturally parodied this in "Trapped in the Drive-Thru", a parody of Music/RKelly's "Music/TrappedInTheCloset", in which he rhymes "Door" with itself several times, and later rhymes "drive-thru" with itself for ''eight lines in a row'', lampshading it in the last line: "Did I mention the drive-thru?".

* The nursery rhyme "Pop Goes the Weasel," of course, rhymes "weasel" with "weasel."