Hi,

Really interesting discussion, I am probably guilty of the pop rhymes, but i do agree with telegraphed rhymes, you can always see them coming, I always wonder is that because it is the rhyme or you can predict where the line is going from the first words once you have heard the start. Ok so yeah, that it chicken and egg stuff.

Z: I listen to a lot of musical theatre and i was also spoiled on Sondheim (now I'm getting spoiled on Jason Robert Brown and have always been spoiled with Tim Rice) but one of my favorite off rhymes, well hell I Just call it a rhyme, comes from Joseph and the amazing etc where the line is:

'All these things you saw in your pajamas
Are a long range forecast for your farmers'

Or another favorite:

'The creme de la creme of the chess world in a
Show with everything but Yul Brynner'

(both the above from the pen of the aforementioned T Rice, both from musicals, the second being a big hit as well)

That is just class. Musical theatre is different as its all about episodes in an over all story, but then a song is just that, a story as well.

I must start looking now at my own writing regarding rhyming as this thread has made me think a little. Which is what it is all about.

Thanks for the thoughts

Alan