Timeline for Is there a term for this word play where a song intentionally avoids completing a rhyme?
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| Jul 26, 2021 at 11:31 | comment | added | mplungjan | @JulianaKarasawaSouza Alas only one line: youtube.com/watch?v=LUHGyZQHp8I&t=83s | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 11:21 | comment | added | Juliana Karasawa Souza | Of for a more contemporary example, "Welcome to Duloc" from Shrek | |
| Jul 26, 2021 at 11:18 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
attributing correctly
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| May 2, 2020 at 17:57 | history | edited | mplungjan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added 226 characters in body
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| May 2, 2020 at 16:57 | comment | added | WS2 | I always think the best example of this is from the film "Oh What a Lovely War", British squaddies in the trenches singing It was Christmas Day in the Cookhouse | |
| May 2, 2020 at 11:43 | history | edited | Peter Shor | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added "subverted rhyme", which is a good name for this that seems to have been added to Wikipedia since the original answer.
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| May 8, 2014 at 11:53 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| May 7, 2014 at 14:35 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I've bowed to political correctness / the answer police and deleted my non-answer. I hope someone affords Tolkien's example the honour it deserves: Naughty little fly. / Why does he cry? / Caught in a web. / Soon you'll be ... ...Eaten. | |
| May 6, 2014 at 14:14 | comment | added | Phil Perry | Brings back memories of the novelty tune "The Shaving Cream Song" (I think that's the title). It enjoys a period of airplay every few decades. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaving_Cream_%28song%29 | |
| May 6, 2014 at 13:39 | history | answered | mplungjan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |