>The song "Moonlight Shadow"P: " ... four AM in the morning / carried along by a moonlight shadow": if only she'd sung "four o'clock in the morning" which scans just as well.

Still a notch better than adding a "now" at the end of each line which would otherwise end a syllable short. A practice I equal with bad craftsmanship, just like using do while !eof() where scan/endscan would do perfectly. Specially hate it in my own language, where I've heard it too often, and where they have so many more words available ;). (true - with the looser structure of the sentence, and words changing forms, it's so much easier to find rhyming words)

>Incidentally, just as annoying is Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die":
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>"... in this ever-changing world in which we live in" uses "in which" to avoid putting the preposition at the end of the sentence ... then he up and puts it there anyway!

Does he? I heard it as "in which we're living". Good for me I wasn't paying attention... how much would it have cost, anyway?