Perfect rhymes
Perfect rhymes repeat every sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
2 syllables
- ahead
- instead
- widespread
- misled
- behead
- unsaid
- unwed
3 syllables
- overhead
- infrared
- thoroughbred
“bed” has 29 perfect rhymes in this list, from 1 to 3 syllables. The most common are said, dead, and head. For a softer sound there are 40 near rhymes too, such as left, else, and next. The two example lines rhyme “bed” with “red” and “instead”.
It rhymes with the same words as head and red.
Perfect rhymes repeat every sound from the stressed vowel to the end of the word.
Near rhymes keep the vowel sound and change the consonants: softer, and there are many more of them.
The fair came into town, the sky turned red,
and nobody could get the kids to bed.
The movers took a wrong turn, so instead
we slept that night on boxes, not a bed.
Lines written for this page. Use them as a starting point, not as a finished verse.