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This song has a very posh rhyme scheme. You'll notice that there are very few rhymes for 'lady' in English and so I've resorted to lines like 'she loves me, so hip-hooray, de...' and 'circus pay, de...' the 'dee' sound in each case being the start of a new word.

 

Contrariwise, in places, I've elided 'lady' itself into the next word: '..bearded la-dee-aphonously decollete, dee..splaying.' It seems that the technical term for all this is 'apocopated' rhyme.

I just thought you'd like to know that.