Rhyme

Rhyme: The repetition of matching end sounds between words, usually at line endings.

Rhyme is memory technology: it binds lines into pairs the ear anticipates, which is why verse rhymed for centuries before print made remembering optional.

Rhyme examples

• "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night;"

  — The Tyger, William Blake

• "I do not like green eggs and ham. / I do not like them, Sam-I-am."

  — Green Eggs and Ham, Dr. Seuss

• "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary - internal rhyme inside a single line."

  — The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe

• "But at my back I always hear / Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near;"

  — To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvell

Try it on your own writing: List of Rhyming Words · Good Words to Rhyme With

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