Philipp Goedicke, the longtime limericist for Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, would have no compunction about accepting those as valid rhymes. The original limericist for the program, whose name escapes me, had higher standards for rhymes, but then he was a genius.
Slant rhymes are par for the course in modern poetry and classical poetry as well. Cf. "aleator classicus
Reading at Random in Classical LiteratureArchive for the ‘Catullus’ CategoryCatullus, Poems 60
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num te leaena montibus Libystinisaut Scylla latrans infima inguinum partetam mente dura procreauit ac taetra,ut supplicis vocem in novissimo casucontemptam haberes, a nimis fero corde?Was it a lioness from the Libystinian mountains or barking Scylla who produced you from the lowest part of her groin, you with your mind so harsh and foul that you hold in contempt the voice of a suppliant in the very final misfortune, from a heart too savage?
Roman poets often played with acrostics, but GP Goold seems to have been the first modern reader to notice that in this poem reading the first and last letters of each line anti-clockwise gives the hidden message ‘natu ceu aes’ (‘by birth like bronze’), a pithy summary of the whole poem." https://aleatorclassicus.wordpress.com/category/catullus/
Cactus-Pete about 3 years ago
Exact rhymes have never been a requirement for poetry.
Michael G. about 3 years ago
Free-stylin’ verse!
katzenbooks45 about 3 years ago
Robert “Lord Peter Wimsey” Zimmerman.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 3 years ago
A rabbi walks into a bar with a monocle and a harmonica…..
Kaputnik about 3 years ago
There once was a chap with a monocle,
Who tossed it along with his yarmulke.
Now it may have been rash,
To throw them in the trash,
But I’m glad he stopped playing harmonica.
That’s fairly bad.
Stan Corrected about 3 years ago
McGonagle the argyle gargoyle. Rick Wakeman’s white wicker rocker.
Roscoe about 3 years ago
Moshe Dayan. fool!
raybarb44 about 3 years ago
A German Rabbi that plays the harmonica……
Jefano Premium Member about 3 years ago
Philipp Goedicke, the longtime limericist for Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, would have no compunction about accepting those as valid rhymes. The original limericist for the program, whose name escapes me, had higher standards for rhymes, but then he was a genius.
Thomas R. Williams about 3 years ago
Slant rhymes are par for the course in modern poetry and classical poetry as well. Cf. "aleator classicus
Reading at Random in Classical LiteratureArchive for the ‘Catullus’ CategoryCatullus, Poems 60
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num te leaena montibus Libystinisaut Scylla latrans infima inguinum partetam mente dura procreauit ac taetra,ut supplicis vocem in novissimo casucontemptam haberes, a nimis fero corde?Was it a lioness from the Libystinian mountains or barking Scylla who produced you from the lowest part of her groin, you with your mind so harsh and foul that you hold in contempt the voice of a suppliant in the very final misfortune, from a heart too savage?Roman poets often played with acrostics, but GP Goold seems to have been the first modern reader to notice that in this poem reading the first and last letters of each line anti-clockwise gives the hidden message ‘natu ceu aes’ (‘by birth like bronze’), a pithy summary of the whole poem." https://aleatorclassicus.wordpress.com/category/catullus/
Bradley Walker about 3 years ago
Never trust a second-hand harmonica.
CitizenKing about 3 years ago
Didn’t Adam Sandler use those rhymes?
bobw2012 about 3 years ago
Bob Zimmerman?
T Smith about 3 years ago
An astigmatic blues rabbi walks into a bar…