query on poetic figure

[Laurence Horn]

I never learned a term for it, but I do like this example that allows
for an instance of the rarely sighted Rhyme For "Orange":

The River, Where She Sleeps
Tracy Grammer & Dave Carter

...
Professor come to burst my bubble
says that girl is bound for trouble
serves me solace in a paper cup.
But it looks a bit like agent orange
and when he leaves he slams the door an(d) j-
-ust about that time she phones me up.
...

--['orInJ] and ['dOrInJ] are a perfect rhyme here.

LH

At 12:15 AM -0400 7/16/10, Neal Whitman wrote:
>The term I learned for this is hudibrastic rhyme. Tom Lehrer is a master at
>it. Some of my favorites are from just one song ("Smut"):
>
>    Give me smut and nothing but!
>    A dirty novel I can't shut
>    If it's uncut
>    And unsubt-
>    le.
>
>    As the judge remarked the day that he acquitted my Aunt Hortense,
>    To be smut it must be ut-
>    terly without redeeming social importance.
>    Por-
>    nographic pictures I adore.
>    Indecent magazines galore...
>
>Lehrer's most audacious example IMO is from "We Will All Go Together When We
>Go":
>
>    When you attend a funeral,
>    It is sad to think that sooner o(r) l-
>    ater those you love will do the same for you.
>    And you may have thought it tragic,
>    Not to mention other adjec-
>    tives to think of all the weeping they will do.
>
>-Neal
>
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>>i feel really stupid asking this, but at the moment i can't recall the
>>name of the well-known poetic figure in which a word is split between two
>>lines.  it's often done in songs, to get a rhyme or to set up a temporary
>>ambiguity ("She got pinched in the As / Tor Bar", "Which only goes to show
>>why I'm a broad / Shouldered guy"), but it can also be done to throw
>>emphasis on the material at the end of the first line or the material at
>>the beginning of the second, or for other reasons, as in the mini-poem i
>>posted here:
>>
>>http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/mini-poem/
>>
>>where
>>
>>  tetra
>>    metrical
>>
>>and
>>
>>  trocha
>>    icity
>>
>>are both split, for, well, metrical reasons.
>>
>>surprisingly hard to search for if you don't have a clue about the term.
>>
>>arnold
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