Songs rhyming homonyms

[Nobody]

Most of us agree that it’s stupid if a song rhymes a word with itself, but what about in the case of homonyms? For example:

Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.

or

Didn’t take too long 'fore I found out,
What people mean by down and out.

Or, maybe not exactly a homonym

The logical progression on a the timeline
The separation narrowed down to a fine line

To be honest, because the second word doesn’t mean the same as the first, I give it a pass. It doesn’t bother me at all. What about the rest of you?

[buddha_david]

@Nobody

Generals gathered in their masses,
just like witches at black masses.

By the same band:

What you gonna do?
Time’s caught up with you
Now you wait your turn
You know there’s no return

It does sound rather clunky.

[drad_dog]

Those aren’t homynyms. They are the same words.

“I just can’t wait
To lose all this weight”

would be a rhyming homynym.

Your third example sounds fine to me. It’s English after all, not French. You got to take the rhymes that there are.

[Nobody]

@drad_dog

Those aren’t homynyms. They are the same words.

“I just can’t wait
To lose all this weight”

would be a rhyming homynym.

Wikipedia

In linguistics, a homonym is a word that has different meanings. In the strict sense, one of a group of words that share the same spelling and pronunciation but have different meanings.

[Nobody]

@buddha_david

By the same band:

What you gonna do?
Time’s caught up with you
Now you wait your turn
You know there’s no return

It does sound rather clunky.

Yeah, that example does sound pretty bad.

[california_jobcase]

Stone Sour has this rhyme in “Through Glass”

It’s just a different scene
Remember it’s just different from what you’ve seen
If you accept homophones as homonyms.

[Nobody]

@california_jobcase

Stone Sour has this rhyme in “Through Glass”

It’s just a different scene
Remember it’s just different from what you’ve seen
If you accept homophones as homonyms.

Good example, and yes, homophones count.
Wikipedia

homonyms are simultaneously homographs (words that share the same spelling, regardless of their pronunciation) and homophones (words that share the same pronunciation, regardless of their spelling).