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This was a fun parody to read. I'm at a bit of a loss because I know nothing about Canadian politics. I don't even know it Poilievre is two syllables or three. (pwol-YIEV or PWOL-ly-ev). Your meter suggests three. Of course this is my fault and not yours. As for the parody itself, I am impressed with your rhyming pattern. OS does not have a single pure rhyme in it, though it does have a limited number of near rhymes. You actually converted one of his near rhymes (wife-flight) to a pure rhyme (right-light). You had a few problems with syllable count and accent placement at the beginning of your parody, but that seems to have straightened out as the song progressed. When that happens to me, it usually means I fixed the problem in the process of rereading it, and only went so far back to see where the problem occurred. You probably have different habits from me. Here are a few examples: 1) OS - She packed my bags last night, pre-flight; Parody - Trudeau's time had scandals and lies. Both versions have 8 syllables. Very good. But in OS the accents are on syllables 2, 4, 6 and 8. In the parody, the accents are on syllables 2, 3, 5 and 8. As you sing it, audibly or mentally, your tendency will be to waste syllable 3, sing 3 at slot 4, 5 at slot 6, and 8 will have no music left to sing. You could sing TrudEAU'S time HAD scanDALS and LIES. But it's harder than you might think. 2) OS - Zero hour: 9:00 AM; Parody - S.N.C. Lavalin. OS has either 6 or 7 syllables. Parody has 6 syllables. This can be easily reconciled by making "hour" 1 syllable. Interestingly, "our" is often afforded 1 syllable (Taylor Swift's "Our Song"), but "hour" frequently requires 2 (Wilson Pickett's Midnight Hour). The problem you have here is that the melody line changes mid-word in "hour" in Rocket Man. The only way to fix this is to sing C over two notes. This strategy is in-bounds (The Christmas carol Angel We Have Heard On High, where the syllable "Glor" is held over for 16 notes.)

Thanks for the feedback, a couple things I sometimes do is if a syllable is very silent (like in the original song - the second syllable in hour) I skip it. Something I also do sometimes is check the syllable count of the same line in another verse (in Neil Young's Let's Impeach the President - Verse 1 is "Let's impeach the President for lying" which is 10, Verse 3 is "Let's impeach the President for hijacking" which is 11) and I substitute them out.

Fair enough.