>>>>Just to get a rhyme.
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>>>Was it Montana or Vermont or Alabama where there's still a capital punishment for anyone who tries to publish verse rhyming with "-ation" and/or "-otion"? Only "Summertime blues" survived because of the grandmother clause.
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>>N-N-nnnn-Y-ahhhhhh Wha'?
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>Well it would be the same states where it's illegal for blues writers to wake up before noon, because it's not a even a felony if you shoot one who writes yet another one that starts with "I woke up this morning".
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>Rhyming nation-starvation-carnation-jubilation-degradation or notion-potion-emotion-caution-commotion-motion more than once a year should fall into the same category.

I thought you may be alluding to this. Yes, it's not so good a rhyme and one I avoid in mine. OTOH reggae artists use this "ation" FAR too much - even adding their own: "My generation / too much sufferation" :-)

English isn't a good language for rhymes. You get p!ssed at the "ation" rhyme; I see red when I hear a pop song from ANY of the 5 decades where someone "falls into your ARMS, ... CHARMS", "DANCE ... given half a CHANCE ... for ROMANCE". We have to rely on clever rhymes, such as teh splitting of a word over two lines - Ella's:

"I've a cosy little flat in
what is know as old Manhattan ..."

"You're touching my hand
It tells me you love me, and
At the sound of your voice
Heaven opens its portals to me
Can I help but rejoice
That a sond such as ours came to be"

OTOH the french simply rely on pronouncing the "e" at the end of words that's silent in speech, but used in songs, as "uh", for like MOST of their rhymes. I bet Latin would be a doddle to write rhymes in!