h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't really write poetry, but I have used the alphabet rhyming method numerous times (Don't ask me why, because I really don't know. I can't think of a single non-poetry related reason why I'd want to rhyme anything, but I've done it, anyway.)

Interestingly enough, the only word in the English language that can't be rhymed is supposedly "orange," but perhaps using this method we can find a reasonable facsimile. How about "smorange?" Or maybe "blorange."

But I'm just a novice in the field of bad poetry. Surely someone else out there can help me in my quest to find out once and for all:

"What rhymes with orange?"

Let's tell those good poets and show them that we won't blindly accept their tradition that orange just doesn't rhyme.

Who's with me!

Sorry to answer this in one post , but I do have an answer for you of sorts.

There's a book I read once that had a character in it called Porange Chilver. He lived on an island with a famous poet and dozens of scantily clad young women. He was the only man allowed to live on the island just in case the poet ever ended a line with 'orange' or 'silver' and needed something to rhyme with it.

Now that's all I remember: maybe somebody could tell me where I read this.

What's wrong with using lozenge and scavenge?

I heard that there are no rhymes in the English language for orange, purple, silver or month.

~~A~~

You can scam-rhyme orange with "door hinge", but it seems a bigger challenge to write something coherent with "door hinge" in it.

My, how I love the color orange,
It is the color of my door hinge,
Now I will have to scavenge,
I want to find myself a lozenge,
And share it with my buddy, Porange.

Scavenge, lozenge, and door hinge are of the close-rhyming variety, but the only here so far that rhymes in the strictest sense of the word is Porange.

Maybe I was wrong about orange being the ONLY word that couldn't be rhymed. Hmm...Let's see...month...How about dunth (as in the pronunciation of the word "dunce" after having one's teeth knocked out). Purple may be a little harder...

Sitting on the porch with the Kaiser
You are jealous, you big skeezer
To try to distract the big man, you throw an orange
Succeeding only in hitting the door hinge
Your aim sucks, you big plushense
Tonight we will have laughs at your expense
For lo, you foolish and stupid and not very
Intelligent person who is not named Cary
You are but a nit in the wit of the hair of the head of a very insignificent little mangy mutt running around in the streets of Clapham being chased by animal control and you have no idea about anything at all outside of that tiny little specialty of yours that you know all of the names of the months.

OK, that could have been worse, but I didn't want to spend any time on it.

Ok, I'll tell you, but first, what rhymes with purple?

Burple.

orange rhymes with Lorenge! didn't anyone else know that? and for all you lot Lorenge was the name of the First Pigeon ever to try sunflower seeds!
from your dearest Cardinal

the only word i can find that is close in any way to orange is...............lozenge. enjoy!

I've found what I was looking for...

"Among our many English rhymes
There's none, they say, for 'month'.
I've tried and failed a hundred times -
Then made it the hundred and onth!"



~~A~~

could month rhyme with bumpf? it's worth a try!

Purple - not 'burple' but 'burp'll'.

When you find you're choking
And your face is purple;
When nothing else will help you,
Perhaps you'll find a burp'll.

As to orange - I have seen poems where a word was broken at line's end with the final syllable(s) at the start of the next line so that the partial word on the end of the line DID rhyme where needed. If this is legit, then one could use the word 'porringer' (which is a REAL word, unlike Porange) and break it before the '-er' syllable - although that would make it difficult for the reader to understand that the 'g' sound was soft like a 'j' rather than like the 'g' in 'rang':

My lover turned a brilliant orange,
Hearing what I'd said;
And, stooping, grabbed and threw a porring-
-Er at my poor head.

Likewise:

The moon shines crystal bright this eve
And tips the trees with silver
While one by one the lasses leave
behind the ancient hill ver-
dant in its grassy pelt:
I hope this is correctly spelt.

As for 'month' the previous correspondent's use of 'hundred and onth' cannot be topped

oooooooo, i'm very impressed ! sympathy this way please! i'm

or even !

There are many words from this word what also wryme with Orange. Oh, Range! That is one.

Plus barrow, can also be involved the party (of words). Borrow, too, can be thought about when we come to consider the words which rhyme now with orange.

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