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. 

Prosopogostichs For Dummies; A Tutorial

Prosogostichs is the name assigned to the lines, most 

often eight in number, which form a verse parodying 

some limerick-like lines penn'd by poet Edward Lear. 

The verse's opening line, in dactyls as are all the lines, 

mimics the opening line of that poet's "How pleasant 

to know Mr. Lear," substituting the name of the subject 

of the new prosopogostichs for that of the fictionalized 

poet. The remainder of the poem goes on to portray 

aspect(s) of the life and/or character of the subject. 

The rhyme scheme of the stanza is either AbababAb, 

where the seventh line is virtually identical to the first, 

or AaaaaaAa in the case of a rigorously rhyming set of 

prosopogostichs, wherein all the lines rhyme and the 

opening and seventh lines again are virtually identical.

An example 

     Prosopogostichs On Kamala Harris

Not unpleasant to know...? Mrs. Harris.

From another Drumpf term may she spare us!

Unlike Drumpf, she would never embarrass

the U.S. in Beijing, Perth or Paris.

With her jubilant smile matic- charis,

of Joe Biden's agenda she's heiress.

This most-pleasant-to-know Mrs. Harris

is (Confess!) your progressive Polaris.