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Thread #45039   Message #664852
Posted By: Genie
08-Mar-02 - 01:36 AM
Thread Name: Awkward rhymes
Subject: RE: Awkward rhymes
Cllr, You can rhyme "orange" if you split the syllable rhymes between two words, e.g.:
"...for en-joyment. Oh, I love to eat an orange
In the heat of the noonday sun.
I only do it for en-
Joyment and for fun.
(Talk about contrived rhymes!!)

Little Hawk, The line you cited is from Chris Williamson's "Song Of The Soul."
She actually wrote (and sings)

"Come to your life like a warrior ["war-yah"]
Nothing will bore ya...
But I nearly always hear other folks sing it [and even PRINT the lyrics] as:
"come to your life like a warrior,
Nothing will bore yer...

Murray, When Belafonte sings "Play Me," he sings
"Songs she sang to me, songs she brought to me,
Words that rang in me, rhymes that sprang from me
Warmed the night ...."
To me, it sounds just fine that way, without the chalk on the blackboard reaction I get to "brang."

Not to beat up on Neil Diamond---Oh, heck, lets!---he really strains a rhyme in "'I Am', I Said."
"...I'm not a man who likes to swear, but I never cared...". There IS NO SWEARING in the song, so the line seems to have been inserted just to make an internal rhyme!

Neil also wrote:
"Song sung blue, weeping like a willow
"Song sung blue, sleeping on my pillow."
These two are examples of lines of words that rhyme but really don't make a lot of sense.

Rod Steward did the same thing in "You're In My Heart. He includes the line, BR>"You're [da da*], you're glamour,
Please pardon the grammar,
But you're every schoolboy's dream ..." Words that rang in m (*I can't recall the two-syllable word here-- something like "essence," but it's not relevant to the point.)
The point is that there IS NO BAD GRAMMAR in the statement he is making. Again, a cheap non-sequitur of a rhyme.

The epitome of this kind of silly rhyme, of course, is the 1960's song "Incense, Peppermints." The guys who wrote it said that they did it by going to a rhyming dictionary and just trying to put all these rhyming and half-rhyming words into a song, not caring if it meant anything!

Genie