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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.

cat has nine lives

Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

End Rhymes

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

End Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

Near Rhymes

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

blessing in disguise
all eyes
bedroom eyes
believe one's eyes
between the eyes
eagle eyes
four eyes
hit between the eyes
open up one's eyes
pull the wool over one's eyes
pull the wool over someone's eyes
scales fall from your eyes
shut one's eyes
sight for sore eyes
stars in your eyes
as the crow flies
how the land lies
pack of lies
see how the land lies
cut down to size
pint size
to size
by surprise
take by surprise
get wise
put one wise
put wise
word to the wise

Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 42

eat someone alive
know one is alive
look alive
sakes alive
skin alive
skin someone alive
crash dive
go into a nose dive
into a nose dive
take a nose dive
line drive
take five
live and let live

Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 42

at times
behind the times
sign of the times

Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 42

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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