First in the rhymes that don't rhyme series
I give you these lyrics from Kim Carnes' Bette Davis Eyes:
She's precocious and she knows just
what it takes to make a pro blush
Does she think us dense? Did she really think she could slip that past us? Precocious doesn't rhyme with knows just or with pro blush. Knows just doesn't rhyme with pro blush.
No, Ms. Carnes, there is no statute of limitations on outing rhymes that don't rhyme and, although it took me some 20 years, I gotcha!
She's precocious and she knows just
what it takes to make a pro blush
Does she think us dense? Did she really think she could slip that past us? Precocious doesn't rhyme with knows just or with pro blush. Knows just doesn't rhyme with pro blush.
No, Ms. Carnes, there is no statute of limitations on outing rhymes that don't rhyme and, although it took me some 20 years, I gotcha!
posted by Wonderdog | 12:38 AM | Permalink
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You do Ms Carnes a disservice. Her use of assonance in this couplet, as opposed to the feminine rhyme of the preceding, is in keeping with the suddenly sleazy content. It's a rare sapling of poetic verve on the barren steppes of Eighties lyricism.
But tma, in the immortal words of the educated Rita, assonance is getting the rhyme wrong.
By the way, there's more poetry in your final sentence than in the entire Eighties repertoire.
Kate Marie, how dare you?
Clearly you need to be hypnotized and re-educated by one of your musical '80s neighbors.
LOL, Jeff, that's hilarious!
I think we should send Daryl Ann to the institute and have her blog about it.
Notice how the Thompson Twins aren't mentioned by name in his bio?
Dammit, you're all wrong! Hasn't anybody noticed that you're supposed to read these lines drunk, like Carnes was when she wrote it:
She's precocioush and she knows jush
what it takes to make a pro blush
Now, go get a bottle of Ouzo, down it quickly, and re-read the damn poem right!
Jeffery "Informed Reader" Hodges
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"Ass" onance. Heh Heh. . He said Ass.
-Beevis.
Thanks for the tip, Jeffery. Damn, that was good. I think Kim Carnes should always be read while drunk. Though, I'm sure I'll regret it in the morning...
Jeff, funny you should link Mr. Leeway. I went to him about two weeks ago for a session in which he discovered, through hypnosis, that I was an inveterate liar. I distinctly remember being roused from my hypnotic state and hearing him pronounce, "Lies lies lies yyyeaaah! They're gonna getchu!"
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