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What's wrong with this Limerick, and why?
A poet once took up the challenge
To find a word rhyming with orange.
He spoke choice after choice,
Almost losing his voice,
'Til he sucked on a menthol throat lozenge.
Oh my! A pointless Limerick.
Who would have thought......
There is nothing 'chi-chi' about me, Jon,
unless you mean Chi-Chi the Giant Panda.
In which case, one could argue a slight
resemblance:
8 Answers
- AcornLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I love it, Crates. Off-rhyme is very chi-chi in the elite of poesy, ya know.
I remember seeing an ancient clip from a TV show with Petula Clark ("Downtown," "Don't Sleep in the Subway," lotsa hits back in the 50s and 60s).
She posited: Cockneys are the only people in the world who have a rhyme for the word orange. It's the thing that allows a door to swing open and closed: a door 'inge.
For some reason that makes me laugh.
- DeeJayBLv 51 decade ago
The last line has to many syllables. It should have the same as the first 2, which have 9. Last line has 10.
- Experto CredoLv 71 decade ago
"Lozenge" is not even considered a close rhyme to "orange", which has no pure rhyme. Ditto for "challenge".
The only word, which is barely acknowledged, is "door-hinge" and that limits what you can do
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- -Lv 71 decade ago
Nothing's wrong with it, 'cause I never could say lozenge correctly!
sounds good to me!
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- 1 decade ago
even though challenge and lozenge(if thats a word) look like they sound like orange, they don't rhyme.
- 1 decade ago
Last line: 'Til he can be
read like "Tilly.."
........ thus works for me.
