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Thread #45039   Message #664711
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-Mar-02 - 08:31 PM
Thread Name: Awkward rhymes
Subject: RE: Awkward rhymes
Of course you'd think that if sing modified to sang, bring would similarly go to brang - and the form does exist in the dictionaries, but as obsolete. "songs she brung to me" would be close enough.

I think the rule of thumb is, unless you are using the rhyme humorously, you should never sound as if you are using a word or a construction as a way of getting a rhyme. It should sound as if, just by fortunate chance, the words you needed to use to convey the meaning happened to echo each other at the right places.