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Pure Rhymes

Words that have identical vowel-based rhyme sounds in the tonic syllable. Moreover, that tonic syllable must start with a different consonantal sound.

  • make the blood boil
  • make your blood boil
  • banana oil
  • burn the midnight oil
  • midnight oil
  • right royal
Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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End Rhymes

Words that have a pure rhyme on their last syllable only.

End Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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Near Rhymes

Words that "almost" rhyme on the vowel-based rhyme sound of the stressed syllable like: be/eat or maybe/shapely.

  • watched pot never boils
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 18
  • hard boiled
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 18
  • all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
  • blue-eyed boy
  • fair haired boy
  • mama's boy
  • whipping boy
  • real mccoy
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 18

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Mosaic Rhymes

Rhymes made up of more than one word. For instance, "jealous" and "tell us" or "shaky" and "make me."

One-syllable words do not have mosaic rhymes.

Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1