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Thank you thank you thank you, Lynn...

That Michel Legrand is a GREAT song and a good example, and good examples will help some who may have swallowed the "unwritten rules" ...and see this fantastic example, and better understand what I am talking about.

"of your life" becomes a mini hook, by using it like that, but it is technically three identity words in a row, OVER and OVER again!!!

IOW, there are a few out there that would never even CONSIDER that, because of the identity issue, taking precedence, in their minds.

But then they would miss out on

"...what are you doing the REST of your life/ north and south and east and WEST of your life"

In fact, those are all quite legitimate quadruple rhymes, all being set up with stressed rhyming words (rest/West/request...times/dimes/rhymes)followed by three consecutive secondarily stressed identity rhymes (of your life/of your life/of your life...of your days/of your days/of your days...).

Now I am happy

MIke