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Halfmoon Charlie	To Rhyme or not to rhyme...perfectly. (47)	RE: To Rhyme or not to rhyme...perfectly.	05 Jun 23
I guess I would say that the dissonance created in the listeners ear by the untrue rhyme, might actually accent the meaning of the lyric. Not strictly about lyrics... "Frost once said that whenever he came across a rhymed poem the first thing he did was run his eye down the right side of the poem to see who had won, the poet or the rhyme scheme." attributed to Robert Frost by Billy Collins (in the Introduction to: "The Stuffed Owl - An Anthology of Bad Verse"

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