Here’s a limerick following the same principle. (I think I read it in Metamagical Themas; not sure if Hofstadter was the original author.)
There once was a man from St. Bees Who was stung on the arm by a wasp When asked “Does it hurt?” He replied “Just a bit — I’m so glad that it wasn’t a hornet.”
I’m in favor of this obviously wrong use of ‘rhyme’.
It’s a conceptual rhyme.
Here’s a limerick following the same principle. (I think I read it in Metamagical Themas; not sure if Hofstadter was the original author.)
It’s usually attributed to W. S. Gilbert (as in Gilbert and Sullivan).
It’s more allegorical than wrong.
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.”
-- Unknown (though attributed without source to Mark Twain)