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Jackaroodave The Perfect Couplet (51* d) RE: The Perfect Couplet 04 Mar 18

For the gluttonous or very hardy, searching the DB for Tom Lehrer's patter song, "The Chemical Elements," gets you this couplet and 11 more:

:"There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium"

Each has a perfect trisyllabic rhyme: identical sounds following different first phonemes in the last stressed syllables.

Then it concludes with a couplet rhyming "Harvard" and "discavard."

The performance is easily found on youtube.

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