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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.

  • act of God
  • honest to God
  • get the nod
  • give the nod
  • land of nod
  • on the nod
  • hoist with one's own petard
  • hoist with your own petard
  • hot rod
  • lightning rod
  • ride roughshod
  • rough shod
  • firing squad
  • shoot one's wad
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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.

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  • cut a swathe
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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.

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