Phrase Hound found 51 phrases and 32 compound words that contain rhyme. The most common are listed below. Open rhyme in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 51
- nursery rhymeA short poem or song for children, mostly anonymous or handed down by folklore
- rhyme or reasonLogic; common sense.
- counting rhymeAny of the rhymes used in counting-out games.
- rhyme schemeThe pattern created by the rhymes at the ends of the lines of a stanza of poetry
- rhyme dictionaryA Chinese lexicon arranged by tones and rhyme rather than radical, frequently without definitions.
- rhyme royalA form of English verse consisting of seven-line stanzas of iambic pentameter having a rhyme scheme of ababbcc, first represented in English in works by Geoffrey Chaucer (c.1343-1400).
- stave-rhymeA (stressed) word that rhymes with another, in that it begins with the same consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel.
- broken rhymeThe splitting of the final word in a line of poetry (onto the next line) such that a rhyme is formed from a syllable other than the last.
- end rhymeThe form of rhyme (rhyming) which uses sameness of sound of the last words of lines from the vowels in their stressed syllables to their ends.
- feminine rhymeA disyllabic rhyme that occurs on an unaccented final syllable (a feminine ending).
- internal rhymeThe rhyming of words (in modern English poetry) or of stressed syllables (in old Germanic poetry) within the same line of a verse.
- exact rhymeA perfect rhyme.
- eye rhymeA pair of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme but, because of different pronunciation, do not. Many eye rhymes are historic rhymes.
- full rhymeA perfect rhyme.
- half rhymeA form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the stressed syllables are not.
- head rhymeThe use of alliteration at the beginning of stressed syllables
- historic rhymeRhymes that were full rhymes in an older stage of the language, but have since become eye rhymes owing to sound changes. Historic rhymes are used by historical linguists to reconstruct the phonology of old languages.
- mind rhymeA form of rhyme in which a rhyming word is omitted, and left to be "heard" only in the reader's mind.
- near rhymeSynonym of half rhyme: A form of imperfect rhyme in which the final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound, but the vowels of the …
- perfect rhymeA form of rhyme in which the vowels and final (coda) consonants of stressed syllables (and, in modern English poetry, any following syllables to the end of the words) are identical in sound.
- rhyme bookSynonym of rhyme dictionary: A Chinese lexicon arranged by tones and rhyme rather than radical, frequently without definitions.
- rhyme dictionariesplural of rhyme dictionary: A Chinese lexicon arranged by tones and rhyme rather than radical, frequently without definitions.
- riding rhymeiambic pentameter
- sight rhymeSynonym of eye rhyme: A pair of words (or syllables) that, because of their spelling, look as if they rhyme but, because of different pronunciation, do not. Many eye rhymes are historic rhymes.
- tail rhymerhyme in which the rhyming lines in each verse are followed by a shorter line; these shorter lines sometimes rhyme with each other
Compound words 32
- rhymefestA situation involving a great deal of rhyming.
- rhymerA minstrel.
- unrhymeA line of verse that does not rhyme.
- monorhymeA poem or rhyme scheme whose lines all end with the same rhyme.
- rhymicalOf or pertaining to rhyme.
- interrhymeTo rhyme with each other.
- rhymeproseAn early form of poetry, not strictly distinguished from prose writing, but having certain poetical features.
- rhymeyCharacterised by rhyme.
- outrhymeTo surpass in rhyming.
- pararhymeSynonym of consonance: A form of rhyme having the same consonants but different vowels.