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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.

  • under a cloud
  • two's company; three's a crowd
  • do proud
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.

  • head in the clouds
  • head is in the clouds
  • in the clouds
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 33
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 33
  • draw a long bow
  • more than one string to their bow
  • shot across the bow
  • take a bow
  • by the sweat of one's brow
  • sacred cow
  • and how
  • know how
  • here and now
  • just now
  • now now
  • can't dance and it's too wet to plow
  • set one's hand to the plow
  • ducks in a row
  • get one's ducks in a row
  • hoe one's own row
  • in a row
  • one's own row
  • raise a row
  • skid row
  • holier than thou
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 33

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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