Perhaps the male reader is more inclined to wince (another potential rhyme-word and ghostly presence).

The first rhyme-word of each pair can occur anywhere in the line, while the second iteration must end the line.

It is a noticeable fact that in by far the greater number of passages where a doubt in regard to the interpretation exists, the obscurity lies in the rhyme-word.

Lear's limericks, as Mr. Levi points out, are deprecated by some "because of the rhyme-word of the first line, which is usually a place name, being repeated in the last."

In addition, he was willing to "endow words with new or at least strained meanings, and introduce notions that are either quite at odds with the immediate context of the rhyme-word embodying them, or conflict with statements made a very short time earlier."