Editing Purple (section)

=== Rhyme ===
[[File:The Prince's Clothes (407816597).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Purple was a central motif in the career of the musician [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]. His 1984 film and album ''[[Purple Rain (album)|Purple Rain]]'' is one of his best-known works. The [[Purple Rain (song)|title track]] is Prince's [[signature song]] and was nearly always played in concert. Prince encouraged his fans to wear purple to his concerts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Where fans of Prince music meet and stay up-to-date|url=http://prince.org/|website=Prince.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://prince.org/wiki/Princepedia |title=Link to the main page of the Princepedia, a Wiki about Prince, on the purple Prince.org Prince fan website |access-date=2013-01-28 |archive-date=2013-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130124194142/http://prince.org/wiki/Princepedia }}</ref>]]
*In the [[English language]], the word "purple" has only one perfect rhyme, ''[[wikt:curple|curple]].'' Others are [[List of English words without rhymes#Words with obscure perfect rhymes|obscure perfect rhymes]], such as ''[[wikt:hirple|hirple]].''
**[[Robert Burns]] rhymes purple with curple in his Epistle to Mrs. Scott.
*Examples of [[Rhyme#General rhymes|imperfect rhymes]] or non-word rhymes with purple:
** In the song [[Grace Kelly (song)|Grace Kelly]] by [[Mika (singer)|Mika]] the word purple is rhymed with "hurtful".
** In his hit song "[[Dang Me]]", [[Roger Miller]] sings these lines:
{{poemquote
|text="[[Rose]]s are red, [[violet (plant)|violets]] are purple
[[Sugar]] is sweet and so is [[maple syrup|maple surple]]"
}}