Runcibl'd Spoonerisms For Dummies: A Tutorial

A spoonerism results when a pair of vowels, consonants or morphemes in two syllables or words of a phrase or clause are transposed, creating a second phrase or clause with a different, often comic, meaning. A runcibl'd spoonerism results when each of the two components of the spoonerism (which may rhyme) is preceded by a definition, which two definitions do rhyme. Thus, a runcibl'd spoonerism takes the form of the statement of a proportion similar to 'a' : 'b' :: 'c' : 'd,' where 'a' defines the phrase or clause 'b,' 'c' defines the phrase or clause 'd,' and where 'a' and 'c' rhyme. (In the example below, the two elements themselves of the spoonerism feature an eye rhyme.) 

An example 

('a') Sphynx's riddle...? Snare for fools : 
('b') Pyramids at Giza ::
('c') pepperoni plopp'd near tools :

('d') gear (amid sat pizza)

Another example 

Oz is nice, tho' not this season : 

No place like home ::

Bloody Christ! This joint is freezin'! :

Whole place...? Like Nome 

     Moral:

Don't twisters ride; 

it's cold outside. 

     (A tornado or "twister," of course transports Dorothy to Oz in the Baum classic.)

The second example above is supplemented by a kind of coda, a rhyming couplet, vaguely or tightly attached to the spoonerism, which adds a colloquy or moral message to it.

     An indeterminate number of runcibl'd spoonerisms in series, not necessarily thematically related to one another, are termed a spoondoolix.