The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163606   Message #3908897
Posted By: Joe_F
01-Mar-18 - 06:25 PM
Thread Name: The Perfect Couplet
Subject: RE: The Perfect Couplet
IMO, the worst rhyme in English prosody occurs in a song I otherwise admire:

There grows a tree in paradise,
And the pilgrims call it the tree of life.

The last word is spread over two measures, during which the naive listener has time to wonder whether it is going to be "lies" or "lice".

But then it gets to

Too late, but never mind.

and all is forgiven.