Trick rhymes

Amanda Riddell
Jun 28, 2025
1 min read

That's the term for a lot of the rhymes in the Shipwrecked on Islands title song. Aro Valley/Alleyways. planet/fan-at-tention. Essentially, one where you make up a rhyme rather than using natural prosody. Lorenz Hart was pretty much the master, though Harburg uses a lot of them too.

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