And there was dystopian half-rhyme: Celebrities came out as having the virus to destigmatize it — but this signaled they had access to testing before the public did.

Now I admit I haven’t been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, nor have I won 20 Grammy awards, sold more than 100 million records, or received the Presidential Medal of Freedom—but it seems to me that “by ya” was always no better than a half-rhyme with “player.”

It was beginning with the idea of voice – of giving Aberfan a voice – that led me towards the style of the piece, a form of verse drama created from first person accounts; a series of rhythmically driven dramatic monologues underpinned by internal and line-end rhyme and half-rhyme.

To exorcise the associations of that jarring half-rhyme, Cameron had recourse to the whole rhetorical tool kit—anaphora, antithesis, tricolon, and the rest.

Dele Alli is 18, and as well as being a sonically delicious half-rhyme, is also a midfielder.