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Thread #82010 Message #1833811
Posted By: Genie
13-Sep-06 - 05:12 PM
Thread Name: worst rhyme ever
Subject: RE: worst rhyme ever
I agree that a lot of unexpected rhymes -- especially those made by carrying over a polysyllabic word from one line to the next -- are not only very good rhymes, but often quite clever. I'm also a fan of the humorously contrived rhymes of Ogden Nash, Tom Lehrer, etc. If they turn out to be bad puns, that's intended.
Neil Diamond, however, took a beautiful, serious ballad and stuck a nails-on-the-chalkboard, cringeworthy contrived -- and really unneeded -- rhyme in the middle of it by using bad grammar. He wins the prize in my opinion.
Now Sting (Gordon Sumner) may also be a contender, if only for really s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g to find a a kinda, sorta, quasi-, close-but-no-cigar rhyme in the song "Wrapped Around Your Finger:"
"You consider me a young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis."
Hmmm.
Ho-Kay.
Genie