Rhyme you or I'll eat you
Rhyme you or I'll eat you is a winged word that describes verses of songs and poems that rhyme poorly.
The idiom is mainly used in children's or other sociable songs.
The expression has its origin in Gottfried Wilhelm Sacer's satire Reime dich, or I eat you , published in 1673 under the pseudonym Reinhold Hartmann : that is, to give more clearly, Antipericatametanaparbeugedamphirribificationes Poeticae or Schellen- und Schellensworthy folly of Boeotic poets in Germany .
literature
- Claudine Moulin : Orthographic Reform and Orthographic Satire in the Baroque. Gottfried Wilhelm Sacers "Reime dich, or I eat you" (1673) , in: Contributions to script linguistics . Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Dieter Nerius. Edited by Petra Ewald and Karl-Ernst Sommerfeldt, Language, System and Activity 15, Frankfurt / Main - Berlin - Bern - New York - Paris - Vienna 1995, pp. 175–189.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rhyme you / or I will eat you / That is / to be given more clearly / Antipericatametanaparbeugedamphirribificationes Poeticæ, or Schellen- and scornful folly of Boeotic poets in Germany / Hans Wursten / To be dissimilar benefits and honors / No disadvantage of noble poetry / our laudable mother tongue / or some righteous / learned poet / To laugh at and to reject presented / by Hartmann Reinholden / the Franckfurther. Suspende, Lector Benevole, Judicium tuum, donec plenius, quid feram, cognoveris. Fuhrmann, Northausen 1673 ( digitized version ).