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4370859 No.4370859 [Reply] [Original]

What is it called when a poem leads you to expect a rude word to complete a rhyme but then the poet uses a different word for comic effect?
Does it even have a name?

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4370870

YES; "JOKE", OR SYNONYMS.

>> No.4370887

Misdirection?

>> No.4370897

nonsequitur in the comedic sense of the word

>> No.4370908

bathos maybe?