# Songs with non-rhyming lyrics

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-non-rhyming-lyrics/945272
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** music
**Created:** [June 29, 2021, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-non-rhyming-lyrics/945272 "2021-06-29T19:16:55Z")
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### Author: ![its\_the\_daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bb73d2/32.png) [@its\_the\_daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/its_the_daddy)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2021, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-non-rhyming-lyrics/945272/15 "2021-06-30T07:36:15Z")

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Amazing successive posts this morning:

[Songs with non-rhyming lyrics](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-non-rhyming-lyrics/945272/15)

[Insect stings](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/insect-stings/945294/8)

There was an Old Man of St. Bees  
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp.  
When asked, “Does it hurt?”  
He replied, “No, it doesn’t,  
But I’m so glad it wasn’t a hornet.”

_W S Gilbert_

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