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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.

  • give oneself airs
  • put on airs
  • for all one cares
  • musical chairs
  • split hairs
  • blood, sweat and tears
  • bore to tears
  • burst into tears
  • crocodile tears
  • vale of tears
Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

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End Rhymes

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

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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.

  • make oneself scarce
  • make yourself scarce
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 5

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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."

  • brown + bears
  • brown + hairs
  • down + stairs
  • down + tears
  • town + bears
  • town + squares
Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1