[2]) A traditional example is the song "Sweet Violets" from 1951, which begins: There once was a farmer who took a young miss In back of the barn where he gave her a... Lecture on horses and chickens and eggs And told her that she had such beautiful...
[3] An extract will illustrate the technique:[4] One very hot day in the summer last year A young man was seen swimming round Brighton Pier; He dived underneath it and swam to a rock And amused all the ladies by shaking his Fist at a copper who stood on the shore, The very same copper who copped him before.
For the policeman to order him out was a farce, For the cheeky young man simply showed him his Graceful manoeuvres and wonderful pace... "Something You Can Do with Your Finger" from South Park uses enjambment to replace taboo words with non-taboo phrases with the same initial syllable.
For example shit>shih-tzu and meat>meeting, in the following fragment, each start a new sentence instead of finishing the old one: I don't want my breakfast, because it tastes like— Shih Tzus make good housepets, they're cuddly and sweet, Monkeys aren't good to have, because they like to beat their— Meeting in the office, [...] Similarly, the childhood rhyme "Miss Suzie" ends each section with what sounds like a taboo word, only to continue with a more innocent word.
Miss Suzie had a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell, Miss Suzie went to heaven, the steamboat went to Hello operator please give me number nine [...] Another example is the 1985 Bowser and Blue song "Polka-Dot Undies", which begins: I went for a ride in my pickup truck I picked up my girl, 'cuz I wanted to Show her my gloves, 'cuz she had on her mitts And I blushed brightly when she showed me her Perfume that she buys whenever Avon calls, So I took off my pants, and I showed her my Polka-dot undies!
Though fairly rare in canonical literature, examples of mind rhyme can be found in the work of William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore and others.
[6] In Lewis Carroll's 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster it is generally assumed that the last words of the interrupted poem could be supplied by the reader as "— eating the Owl".