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Sound Reasoning Solution
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| Genre: Riddle |
Rating: 7 - Hard |
Source: Brain Trainer Puzzle 42 |
| Brain Functions: Verbal Skills / Lateral Thinking |
Puzzle Hint |
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My usefulness I quickly prove
When someone writes an ode of love.
And lyricists my rules obey
When writing songs in any key.
I'm masculine or feminine,
Affecting almost every line.
And just when things go bad to worse,
At last you find me in this verse.
This poem is designed to grate on your sensibilities. Something is wrong with it – up until the final couplet.
Hints in the title: I have to do with "sound" and am sometimes paired with "reason".
I am something very useful when writing love poetry.
Songwriters typically obey my rules when writing lyrics.
I am referred to as masculine (stress on the last syllable) or feminine (stress on the next-to-last syllable).
I affect almost every line of a song or poem.
The final couplet is the only one in the poem that actually rhymes.
The words that complete the other lines have the same spelling, but not the same sound.
The answer to the riddle is "rhyme".
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