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Questions tagged [rhymes]

For questions about rhyme, or words that have the same sound as one another. ('pique' and 'leek', 'steep' and 'leap', etc.)

Use this tag for questions about rhymes, or words that have the same sound as one another. They are very frequently used in songs and poems, often to achieve an aesthetic effect.

Basic examples:

  • Brain and gain.
  • Pledge and ledge.
  • Flower and power.
  • Grass and pass

Ask about:

  • historical change in rhyme
  • whether certain words rhyme in certain dialects
  • terminology related to rhyme
  • rhyme scheme

Consider using in conjunction with other tags, such as or .

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What is it about English that makes it favourable for writing limericks?

I was reading some limericks and I thought about composing them, and I find it very easy to come up with lines that fit the metre. Is there something about the English language that makes it easy to come up with limericks? Is there something…
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Did "Old Mother Hubbard" ever rhyme?

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard, To give the poor dog a bone: When she came there, the cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none. It's always bothered me that "bone" doesn't rhyme with "none", especially since the other…
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Why doesn't "bounce" rhyme with "counts"?

I was surprised to learn, recently, that various online rhyming dictionaries do not consider "bounce" and "counts" to be perfect rhymes. See, for example, here and here. At the same time, when I say these words as a native American-English speaker,…
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What different types of rhymes are used here?

In this video with rapper Eminem, he makes the following rhymes: "I put my orange, four inch, door hinge, in storage, and ate porridge with george." Following the Types of Rhymes wikipedia article, I can only connect a few types of rhymes used…
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Is rhyming of two words a transitive property?

Let's suppose A rhymes with B and B rhymes with C. Does A always rhyme with C?
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Does a word rhyme with itself?

In other words, does rhyming work reflexively? Do "potato" and "potato" rhyme? Is the following (admittedly cumbersome) limerick valid? An issue with rhymes confused me much So I used the internet as a crutch I went to a site The Stack Exchange…
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How is it called, when you rhyme two words, one of which is transformed?

Comedian Hannibal Buress once rhymed “Morpheus” with “seashells by the seashorfeus” (see also full text). The latter phrase references a tongue-twister that goes “she sells seashells by the seashore”. Buress deliberately changed the ending of the…
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she sells seashells type of rhyming style

You know how the pairing of words she sells & the word seashells sound similar in rhyme , is there a specific type of technique that has more than one word rhyme with one word?
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In what parts of the world do "again" and "rain" rhyme?

I sometimes read rhyming poetry where "again" and "rain" are clearly meant to rhyme. However in my accent they don't rhyme at all. I am now wondering in which accents they do rhyme.
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What kind of rhyme is "pan" and "screen"?

I know there're various types of rhyme in English, such as slant rhyme. There're also things called assonance and consonance. I plan to rhyme "pan" with "screen". Essentially two monosyllabic words ending with "n". Obviously this is imperfect rhyme…
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Are there any words that perfectly rhyme with the past tense of -ɪdəl words, that aren't conjugations of other words?

-ɪdəl words. I'm looking for perfect rhymes with "riddled" that aren't just other forms of other words. Do any exist?
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Do precious and pretentious rhyme?

Do the words precious and pretentious rhyme? What are the relevant rhyme rules? Both words end in « ious » , and they are both pronounced consistently. However, when saying them out loud, they don’t immediately sound rhymable, like other words such…
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Rules for Near Rhymes

I seem to be confused about the rules for near rhymes. Specifically are 'slate' and 'pursuit' near rhymes? They seem to me to be so (the vowel sound is different) yet all the references I've checked don't crosslink the two.
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Do words like phase and space rhyme?

Or is there another way to compare them how they sound similar?
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Is there a word for a word (ex of ‘word’:near rhyme) that has a rhyme with the middle of a word?

For example, I reaLIzed that you are a LIE The caps are the rhyming part
anonymous-u will never know
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