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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.

  • different ropes for different folks
  • different strokes for different folks
  • broad strokes
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.

  • dead broke
  • flat broke
  • for broke
  • go broke
  • go for broke
  • crack a joke
  • take a joke
  • pig in a poke
  • watch one's smoke
  • at a stroke
  • at one stroke
Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 51
  • bring to a close
  • draw to a close
  • at the most
Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 51
Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 51

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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